From d3a15c49d4e2abdad900faf723f3bd3ab8ab19e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rene Scharfe Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:50:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] git-tar-tree: small doc update document difference in behaviour w/ regard to tree vs. commit and correct author information. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt index 7870e92ae9..dc8d0fa92f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt @@ -17,10 +17,17 @@ Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree. When is specified it is added as a leading path as 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. + Author ------ -Written by Linus Torvalds +Written by Rene Scharfe. Documentation --------------