Avoid scary errors about tagged trees/blobs during git-fetch

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
index f2675c41933fc4f824f871cc9185a6a1bf010d2b..434607bfb5d105cb2e1a9ce0bdf5a3261ec64e78 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-tar-tree(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-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
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
+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.
@@ -37,7 +40,17 @@ OPTIONS
        Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
        retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
 
-Examples
+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 -)::
 
@@ -58,6 +71,11 @@ 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
 ------
 Written by Rene Scharfe.
@@ -69,4 +87,3 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-