Funny but I've also done this. Thanks for sharing! Depending on the context, if you don't want this in git history, and want to handle git submodules, there's

Funny but I've also done this. Thanks for sharing! Depending on the context, if you don't want this in git history, and want to handle git submodules, there's also git-archive-all https://github.com/roehling/git-archive-all https://github.com/roehling/git-archive-all (if you like shell scripts, it is using bats for testing - it was the first time I heard of it)