GIT-TAR-TREE(1)                                                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&#8217;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&#8217;s Documentation/
              directory into git-1.4.0-docs.tar, with the prefix git-docs/.


GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite




                                                               GIT-TAR-TREE(1)
