Sharing your sources stored in a Git repository

I have been using Git for some time now and so far like it a lot. Especially the set up as described by Vincent Driessen in combination with the git-flow (and perhaps even better for lots of Java projects) the Maven implementation of it make using it easy.
However you might always end up in a situation as I did lately that you have to share your sources with someone who doesn’t use Git. In that case there is a simple Git command to help you out. It is the ‘git archive‘ command. You can use it like this:
git archive --format zip --output my-project-sources.zip develop
In this case a zip file ‘my-project-sources.zip’ is created containing all the sources that are in the ‘develop’ branch.
For lots more Git commands see this page and for more general background info about the way Git works see this book.