diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+# Textmate - if you build your xcode projects with it
+*.tm_build_errors
+ 
+# osx noise
+.DS_Store
+profile
+ 
+# emacs noise
+*~
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/git-archive-all.py b/git-archive-all.py
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+#! /usr/bin/python
+
+from os import path, chdir
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+from optparse import OptionParser
+from sys import argv
+
+git_repositary_path = path.abspath('')
+git_repositary_name = path.basename(git_repositary_path)
+
+parser = OptionParser(usage="usage: %prog [options] <tree-ish>", version="%prog 1.0")
+parser.add_option('--format', type='choice', dest='format', choices=['zip','tar'], default='tar', help="Format of the resulting archive: tar or zip. The default output format is %default.")
+parser.add_option('--prefix', type='string', dest='prefix', default='', help="Prepend %dest to each filename in the archive.")
+parser.add_option('-o', '--output', type='string', dest='output_file', default=path.join(git_repositary_path, git_repositary_name), help='Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout')
+
+(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+
+print options.output_file
+
+def git_files(baselevel=''):
+   for filepath in Popen('git ls-files --cached --full-name --no-empty-directory', shell=True, stdout=PIPE).stdout.read().splitlines():
+       if not filepath.startswith('.git') and not path.isdir(filepath):
+          # baselevel is needed to tell the arhiver where it have to extract file
+          yield filepath, path.join(baselevel, filepath)
+   # get paths for every submodule
+   for submodule in Popen("git submodule --quiet foreach --recursive 'pwd'", shell=True, stdout=PIPE).stdout.read().splitlines():
+       chdir(submodule)
+       # in order to get output path we need to exclude repository path from the submodule path
+       submodule = submodule[len(git_repositary_path)+1:]
+       # recursion allows us to process repositories with more than one level of submodules
+       for git_file in git_files(submodule):
+           yield git_file
+
+if options.format == 'zip':
+    from zipfile import ZipFile, ZIP_DEFLATED
+    output_archive = ZipFile(path.abspath(options.output_file), 'w')
+    for name, arcname in git_files():
+       output_archive.write(name, options.prefix + arcname, ZIP_DEFLATED)
+elif options.format == 'tar':
+    from tarfile import TarFile
+    output_archive = TarFile(path.abspath(options.output_file), 'w')
+    for name, arcname in git_files():
+       output_archive.add(name, options.prefix + arcname)