Avoid scary errors about tagged trees/blobs during git-fetch

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
index 9323dddfa74aa4ef7197637d1a401da96cb5a033..434607bfb5d105cb2e1a9ce0bdf5a3261ec64e78 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
 git-tar-tree(1)
 ===============
-v0.1, May 2005
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-tar-tree - Creates a tar archive of the files in the named tree
+git-tar-tree - Create a tar archive of the files in the named tree object
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-tar-tree' <tree-ish> [ <base> ]
+'git-tar-tree' [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [ <base> ]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
+THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED.  Use `git-archive` with `--format=tar`
+option instead (and move the <base> argument to `--prefix=base/`).
+
 Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree.
 When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path to the files in the
 generated tar archive.
@@ -24,6 +26,55 @@ 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.
 
+OPTIONS
+-------
+
+<tree-ish>::
+       The tree or commit to produce tar archive for.  If it is
+       the object name of a commit object.
+
+<base>::
+       Leading path to the files in the resulting tar archive.
+
+--remote=<repo>::
+       Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
+       retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
+
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+tar.umask::
+       This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
+       tar archive entries.  The default is 0002, which turns off the
+       world write bit.  The special value "user" indicates that the
+       archiving user's umask will be used instead.  See umask(2) for
+       details.
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+git tar-tree HEAD junk | (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
+       `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
+
+git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
+
+       Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release.
+
+git tar-tree v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
+
+       Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
+       global extended pax header.
+
+git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar::
+
+       Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com.
+
+git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar::
+
+       Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
+       into 'git-1.4.0-docs.tar', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
 
 Author
 ------
@@ -35,5 +86,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
-
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite