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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-archive.txt5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index f2080eb6ad..e1e2d60fef 100644
--- 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'.
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