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| author |  Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> | 2005-06-02 20:50:42 +0200 |
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| committer |  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-02 18:30:08 -0700 |
| commit | d3a15c49d4e2abdad900faf723f3bd3ab8ab19e9 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f979cb0c127e0c5cf183fb2bddc11683b861151 /Documentation | |
| parent | [PATCH] git-tar-tree: cleanup write_trailer() (diff) | |
| download | tgif-d3a15c49d4e2abdad900faf723f3bd3ab8ab19e9.tar.xz | |
[PATCH] git-tar-tree: small doc update
document difference in behaviour w/ regard to tree vs. commit and
correct author information.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt index 7870e92ae9..dc8d0fa92f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt @@ -17,10 +17,17 @@ Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree. When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path as the files in the generated tar archive. +git-tar-tree behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given +a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used as +modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case the +commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is used instead. +Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header. +It can be extracted using git-get-tar-commit-id. + Author ------ -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> +Written by Rene Scharfe. Documentation -------------- |