A way to quickly zip source code in a folder, written in Rust. It was made for the cases where you need to zip only files that are part of your git repository, skipping excluded files and folders (according to the .gitignore file).
The best part is: it's very easy to use, and really fast.
ZipSource supports Windows (32 and 64 bits), Linux (64 bits), and MacOS (64 bits).
Click here to download the precompiled executable for your OS.
The inspiration for this project is that I worked with a client that didn't use GitHub, but still demanded the source code of the private project. Without this tool, I had to manually zip the entire folder, then delete the binary files from it, every, single, time. With this tool, I just run the command and let it do its thing.
And because it is a CLI application, you can use it in conjunction with any other tool that is compatible. Going back to the previous example, I wrote a small Exec task in Gradle (Java's build tool) to run ZipSource on the project's folder (example code can be seen here).
You can provide the base path to be used, or if none is provided then ZipSource will use the current directory instead. You can also provide a file name for the zip if you'd like to modify it. The zip file will be generated and placed inside the project folder (base path).
ZipSource usage is consistent across different OSes.
Zips the current directory into a file that follows the following naming scheme: {folder_name} (Source Code).zip.
zipsourceZips the contents of C:\Projects\myproject into a file named myproject (Source Code).zip.
zipsource "C:\Projects\myproject"Zips the contents of C:\Projects\myproject into a file named any name you would like.zip.
zipsource "C:\Projects\myproject" "any name you would like.zip"- Install Rust.
- Open the source code folder and run
cargo buildfor a develop build, orcargo build --releasefor a release (optimized) build.
This project is licensed under MIT License.