[PATCH v3 9/9] user-manual: Use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball
From: W. Trevor King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:10
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-06-15 · Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] user-manual: Use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball · W. Trevor King <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] user-manual: Use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
From: "W. Trevor King" <redacted> This functionality was introduced by 0e804e09 (archive: provide builtin .tar.gz filter, 2011-07-21) for v1.7.7. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <redacted> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 3381c22..af6c09d 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt@@ -931,11 +931,20 @@ The linkgit:git-archive[1] command can create a tar or zip archive from any version of a project; for example: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git archive --format=tar --prefix=project/ HEAD | gzip >latest.tar.gz +$ git archive -o latest.tar.gz --prefix=project/ HEAD ------------------------------------------------- -will use HEAD to produce a tar archive in which each filename is -preceded by `project/`. +will use HEAD to produce a gzipped tar archive in which each filename +is preceded by `project/`. The output file format is inferred from +the output file extension if possible, see linkgit:git-archive[1] for +details. + +Versions of Git older than 1.7.7 don't know about the 'tar.gz' format, +you'll need to use gzip explicitly: + +------------------------------------------------- +$ git archive --format=tar --prefix=project/ HEAD | gzip >latest.tar.gz +------------------------------------------------- If you're releasing a new version of a software project, you may want to simultaneously make a changelog to include in the release
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