some experimental UI stuff to test export

app/controllers/projects_controller.rb

@@ -186,6 +186,15 @@ class ProjectsController < Projects::ApplicationController
     )
   end
 
+  def export
+    ::Projects::ImportExport::ExportService.new(@project, current_user).execute
+
+    redirect_to(
+      project_path(@project),
+      notice: "Project export successfully started"
+    )
+  end
+
   def toggle_star
     current_user.toggle_star(@project)
     @project.reload

app/services/projects/import_export/export_service.rb

 module Projects
   module ImportExport
     class ExportService < BaseService
+
       def execute(options = {})
         @shared = Gitlab::ImportExport::Shared.new(relative_path: project.path_with_namespace)
         save_project_tree

app/views/projects/edit.html.haml

@@ -132,6 +132,19 @@
             = link_to 'Housekeeping', housekeeping_namespace_project_path(@project.namespace, @project),
                 method: :post, class: "btn btn-default"
 
+      .panel.panel-default
+        .panel-heading Export
+        .errors-holder
+        .panel-body
+          %p
+            Downloads a compressed version of the project that can be imported.
+            %br
+
+          .form-actions
+            = link_to 'Export', export_namespace_project_path(@project.namespace, @project),
+                method: :post, class: "btn btn-default"
+
+
       - if can? current_user, :archive_project, @project
         - if @project.archived?
           .panel.panel-success

config/routes.rb

@@ -433,6 +433,7 @@ Rails.application.routes.draw do
         post :housekeeping
         post :toggle_star
         post :markdown_preview
+        post :export
         get :autocomplete_sources
         get :activity
       end