Merge branch 'db/learn-HEAD'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 4da07c158053bd037f32ff74516c7b2dfeec723b..d3eaa16af122b8f048d09ba6f7ba5a1932f59e80 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@ 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
 -----------
 Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
-structure for the named tree.  If <prefix> is specified it is
+structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard
+output.  If <prefix> is specified it is
 prepended to the filenames in the archive.
 
 'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 
 --format=<fmt>::
-       Format of the resulting archive: 'tar', 'zip'...  The default
+       Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'.  The default
        is 'tar'.
 
 --list, -l::
@@ -51,6 +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.
 
@@ -72,16 +78,13 @@ zip
 
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
-By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777 in tar
-archives.  It is possible to change this by setting the "umask" variable
-in the repository configuration as follows :
-
-[tar]
-        umask = 002    ;# group friendly
 
-The special umask value "user" indicates that the user's current umask
-will be used instead. The default value remains 0, which means world
-readable/writable files and directories.
+tar.umask::
+       This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
+       tar archive entries.  The default is 0002, which turns off the
+       world write bit.  The special value "user" indicates that the
+       archiving user's umask will be used instead.  See umask(2) for
+       details.
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
@@ -115,4 +118,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite