DESCRIPTION
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-THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED. Use `git-archive` with `--format=tar`
+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.
-git-tar-tree behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given
+'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.
+It can be extracted using 'git get-tar-commit-id'.
OPTIONS
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Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
into 'git-1.4.0-docs.tar', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
-Author
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-Written by Rene Scharfe.
-
-Documentation
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-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite