NAME
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-git-get-tar-commit-id - Some git command not yet documented.
+git-get-tar-commit-id - Extract commit ID from an archive created using git-archive
SYNOPSIS
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-'git-get-tar-commit-id' [ --option ] <args>...
+'git-get-tar-commit-id' < <tarfile>
+
DESCRIPTION
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-Does something not yet documented.
-
+Acts as a filter, extracting the commit ID stored in archives created by
+gitlink:git-archive[1]. It reads only the first 1024 bytes of input, thus its
+runtime is not influenced by the size of <tarfile> very much.
-OPTIONS
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---option::
- Some option not yet documented.
-
-<args>...::
- Some argument not yet documented.
+If no commit ID is found, git-get-tar-commit-id quietly exists with a
+return code of 1. This can happen if <tarfile> had not been created
+using git-archive or if the first parameter of git-archive had been
+a tree ID instead of a commit ID or tag.
Author
GIT
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-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
-
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite