DESCRIPTION
-----------
+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 junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
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 Rene Scharfe.