DESCRIPTION
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+THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED. Use `git-archive` with `--format=tar`
+option instead.
+
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.
Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
-Examples
+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 remains 0, which means world
+readable/writable files and directories.
+
+EXAMPLES
--------
-git tar-tree HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && mkdir junk && tar Cxf junk -)::
+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 v2.6.17 linux-2.6.17 | gzip >linux-2.6.17.tar.gz
+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::
- Create a tarball for v2.6.17 release.
+ Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com.
-git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v0.99 >git-0.99.tar
+git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar::
- Get a tarball v0.99 from example.com.
+ 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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