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dokku/docs/deployment/methods/archive.md
Jose Diaz-Gonzalez 9decf16ea1 feat: configure archive limits via git properties
Replaces the `DOKKU_ARCHIVE_MAX_SIZE` and `DOKKU_ARCHIVE_MAX_FILES` environment variables with global git properties (`archive-max-size` and `archive-max-files`), configurable via `dokku git:set --global` and surfaced through `dokku git:report --global`. Defaults remain `1073741824` bytes and `10000` entries.
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# Tar and Zip Archives
## Initializing an app repository from an archive file
> [!IMPORTANT]
> New as of 0.24.0
A Dokku app repository can be initialized or updated from the contents of an archive file via the `git:from-archive` command. This is an excellent way of tracking changes when deploying pre-built binary archives, such as java jars or go binaries. This can also be useful when deploying directly from a GitHub repository at a specific commit.
```shell
dokku git:from-archive node-js-app https://github.com/dokku/smoke-test-app/releases/download/2.0.0/smoke-test-app.tar
```
In the above example, Dokku will build the app as if the repository contained the extracted contents of the specified archive file.
Triggering a build with the same archive file multiple times will result in Dokku exiting `0` early as there will be no changes detected.
The `git:from-archive` command can optionally take a git `user.name` and `user.email` argument (in that order) to customize the author. If the arguments are left empty, they will fallback to `Dokku` and `automated@dokku.sh`, respectively.
```shell
dokku git:from-archive node-js-app https://github.com/dokku/smoke-test-app/releases/download/2.0.0/smoke-test-app.tar "Camila" "camila@example.com"
```
The default archive type is always set to `.tar`. To use a different archive type, specify the `--archive-type` flag. Failure to do so will result in a failure to extract the archive.
```shell
dokku git:from-archive --archive-type zip node-js-app https://github.com/dokku/smoke-test-app/archive/2.0.0.zip "Camila" "camila@example.com"
```
Finally, if the archive url is specified as `--`, the archive will be fetched from stdin.
```shell
curl -sSL https://github.com/dokku/smoke-test-app/releases/download/2.0.0/smoke-test-app.tar | dokku git:from-archive node-js-app --
```
## Archive Safety
Archive contents are validated before extraction to prevent path traversal and symlink escape attacks. Archives containing absolute paths, parent directory traversal entries (`..`), or symlinks pointing outside the extraction directory are rejected.
The following limits can be configured via global git properties:
- `archive-max-size` - maximum archive size in bytes (default: `1073741824`, 1 GiB)
- `archive-max-files` - maximum number of entries in an archive (default: `10000`)
```shell
dokku git:set --global archive-max-size 2147483648
dokku git:set --global archive-max-files 20000
```
Unset a property to restore the default:
```shell
dokku git:set --global archive-max-size
```
The current values can be inspected via the global git report:
```shell
dokku git:report --global
```