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From: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] git-tar-tree: small doc update (resent)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:50:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050602185042.GA3707@lsrfire.ath.cx> (raw)

git-tar-tree: document difference in behaviour w/ regard to tree vs. commit 
and correct author information.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>

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
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