Merge branch 'js/tag'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 4da07c158053bd037f32ff74516c7b2dfeec723b..e1e2d60fef1b8fc85e30243f403bd11d80ca980b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 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 +32,7 @@ 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::
@@ -72,16 +73,13 @@ 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
 --------