GIT-TAR-TREE(1)                                            Git Manual                                            GIT-TAR-TREE(1)



NAME
       git-tar-tree - Create a tar archive of the files in the named tree object

SYNOPSIS
       git tar-tree [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [ <base> ]

DESCRIPTION
       THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED. Use git archive with --format=tar option instead (and move the <base> argument to
       --prefix=base/).

       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.

       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.

OPTIONS
       <tree-ish>
           The tree or commit to produce tar archive for. If it is the object name of a commit object.

       <base>
           Leading path to the files in the resulting tar archive.

       --remote=<repo>
           Instead of making a tar archive from local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.

CONFIGURATION
       tar.umask
           This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns
           off the world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving user's umask will be used instead. See
           umask(2) for details.

EXAMPLES
       git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)
           Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
           /var/tmp/junk directory.

       git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
           Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release.

       git tar-tree v1.4.0^{tree} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz
           Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a global extended pax header.

       git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar
           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
       Written by Rene Scharfe.

DOCUMENTATION
       Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <gitATvger.org[1]>.

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES
        1. gitATvger.org
           mailto:gitATvger.org



Git 1.7.4.4                                                04/11/2011                                            GIT-TAR-TREE(1)