Merge branch 'maint'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 0eeefe00603814fcabc7d537d5c04e5801591c56..3d1c1e75b703cc7ba7013b4c8badb50f51966e1f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git archive' --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
-             [--output=<file>]
+'git archive' [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
+             [-o | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
              [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
              [path...]
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ prepended to the filenames in the archive.
 
 'git-archive' 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
+used as the 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 if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
@@ -34,8 +34,11 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 
 --format=<fmt>::
-       Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'.  The default
-       is 'tar'.
+       Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. If this option
+       is not given, and the output file is specified, the format is
+       inferred from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to "foo.zip"
+       makes the output to be in the zip format). Otherwise the output
+       format is `tar`.
 
 -l::
 --list::
@@ -48,15 +51,19 @@ OPTIONS
 --prefix=<prefix>/::
        Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
 
+-o <file>::
 --output=<file>::
        Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
 
+--worktree-attributes::
+       Look for attributes in .gitattributes in working directory too.
+
 <extra>::
-       This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
+       This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
        See next section.
 
 --remote=<repo>::
-       Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
+       Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
        retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
 
 --exec=<git-upload-archive>::
@@ -109,7 +116,7 @@ EXAMPLES
 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
 
        Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
-       latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
+       latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
        `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
 
 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
@@ -126,6 +133,12 @@ git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs
        Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
        into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
 
+git archive -o latest.zip HEAD::
+
+       Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
+       commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
+       inferred by the extension of the output file.
+
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------