# [PATCH] git-tar-tree: small doc update (resent) 1 messages from 2005-06-02 to 2005-06-02. Participants: Rene Scharfe. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/812 ## Rene Scharfe, 2005-06-02 18:50 Subject: [PATCH] git-tar-tree: small doc update (resent) Message-ID: <20050602185042.GA3707@lsrfire.ath.cx> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050602185042.GA3707%40lsrfire.ath.cx ``` git-tar-tree: document difference in behaviour w/ regard to tree vs. commit and correct author information. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe 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 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 +Written by Rene Scharfe. Documentation -------------- ```