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[PATCH] git-tar-tree: small doc update (resent)

From
Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Jun 2, 2005, 18:50 UTC
Message-ID
<20050602185042.GA3707@lsrfire.ath.cx>

git-tar-tree: document difference in behaviour w/ regard to tree vs. commit and correct author information.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
--- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
@@ -17,10 +17,17 @@ Creates a tar archive containing the tre
 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
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  1. git-tar-tree: small doc update (resent)Rene Scharfe, Jun 2, 2005

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