git-tar-tree(1)
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-v0.1, May 2005
NAME
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DESCRIPTION
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Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree.
-When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path as the files in the
+When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path to 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
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-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+Written by Rene Scharfe.
Documentation
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GIT
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-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite