Rene Scharfegit-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>
Show changes to Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt +8 −1
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 --------------