X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-tar-tree.txt;h=9323dddfa74aa4ef7197637d1a401da96cb5a033;hb=0516de30e8bdd26086e2a3edd3375981fd0c34d6;hp=7870e92ae9b394b80a0a0dfcfc888971eb00c356;hpb=2cf565c53c88c557eedd7e5629437b3c6fe74329;p=git.git

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
index 7870e92a..9323dddf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
@@ -14,13 +14,20 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree.
-When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path as the files in the
+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.
+
 
 Author
 ------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+Written by Rene Scharfe.
 
 Documentation
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