X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-tar-tree.txt;h=9323dddfa74aa4ef7197637d1a401da96cb5a033;hb=06ec2b4bb4ab9096d1304ba5a2ec388078dcdf7f;hp=7870e92ae9b394b80a0a0dfcfc888971eb00c356;hpb=f1a7eb36b017c62d9a007b6b8660bdeec3f94f97;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
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Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree.
-When is specified it is added as a leading path as the files in the
+When 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
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-Written by Linus Torvalds
+Written by Rene Scharfe.
Documentation
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