[PATCH] git-tar-tree: small doc update (resent)
From: Rene Scharfe <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:41:59
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
git-tar-tree: document difference in behaviour w/ regard to tree vs. commit and correct author information. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <redacted>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
--- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt@@ -17,10 +17,17 @@ Creates a tar archive containing the tre When <base> 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 <torvalds@osdl.org> +Written by Rene Scharfe. Documentation --------------