Merge branch 'jc/merge-base' (early part)

[git.git] / Documentation / git-tar-tree.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
index 831537b6ffe5c53b8b1955fe7b4f8bac9a3df60d..595940524e7d7f1112700899cf74e24e1c2e1e87 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-tar-tree(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-tar-tree - Creates a tar archive of the files in the named tree
+git-tar-tree - Create a tar archive of the files in the named tree object
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
+THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED.  Use `git-archive` with `--format=tar`
+option instead.
+
 Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree.
 When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path to the files in the
 generated tar archive.
@@ -37,21 +40,44 @@ OPTIONS
        Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
        retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
 
-Examples
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777. 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 is 002, which means group
+readable/writable files and directories.
+
+EXAMPLES
 --------
-git tar-tree HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && mkdir junk && tar Cxf junk -)::
+git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
 
        Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
        latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
        `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
 
-git tar-tree v2.6.17 linux-2.6.17 | gzip >linux-2.6.17.tar.gz
+git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
+
+       Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release.
+
+git tar-tree v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
+
+       Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
+       global extended pax header.
+
+git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar::
 
-       Create a tarball for v2.6.17 release.
+       Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com.
 
-git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v0.99 >git-0.99.tar
+git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar::
 
-       Get a tarball v0.99 from example.com.
+       Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
+       into 'git-1.4.0-docs.tar', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
 
 Author
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