git-tar-tree(1)
===============
-v0.1, May 2005
NAME
----
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-tar-tree' <tree-ish> [ <base> ]
+'git-tar-tree' [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [ <base> ]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
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
+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.
+
+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
+-------------
+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 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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-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+Written by Rene Scharfe.
Documentation
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GIT
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-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite