add a howto document about corrupted blob recovery

[git.git] / Documentation / git-archive.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index e1e2d60fef1b8fc85e30243f403bd11d80ca980b..7cd6526552155d3d120c886ed8ae78ae2d6be80d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git-archive' --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
-             [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [path...]
+             [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
+             [path...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -52,6 +53,10 @@ OPTIONS
        Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
        retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
 
+--exec=<git-upload-archive>::
+       Used with --remote to specify the path to the
+       git-upload-archive executable on the remote side.
+
 <tree-ish>::
        The tree or commit to produce an archive for.