git-tar-tree(1)
===============
-v0.1, May 2005
NAME
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-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
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+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 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
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
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GIT
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-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
-
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite