git-svn: handle our top-level path being deleted and later re-added

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
index 595940524e7d7f1112700899cf74e24e1c2e1e87..434607bfb5d105cb2e1a9ce0bdf5a3261ec64e78 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED.  Use `git-archive` with `--format=tar`
-option instead.
+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
@@ -42,16 +42,13 @@ OPTIONS
 
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
-By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777. It is
-possible to change this by setting the "umask" variable in the
-repository configuration as follows :
 
-[tar]
-        umask = 002    ;# group friendly
-
-The special umask value "user" indicates that the user's current umask
-will be used instead.  The default value is 002, which means group
-readable/writable files and directories.
+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
 --------
@@ -90,4 +87,3 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-