From: "W. Trevor King" <wk...@tremily.us> This functionality was introduced by 0e804e09 (archive: provide builtin .tar.gz filter, 2011-07-21) for v1.7.7.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wk...@tremily.us> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 8024758..c04ea51 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -931,12 +931,19 @@ The linkgit:git-archive[1] command can create a tar or zip archive from any version of a project; for example: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git archive --format=tar --prefix=project/ HEAD | gzip >latest.tar.gz +$ git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=project/ HEAD >latest.tar.gz ------------------------------------------------- will use HEAD to produce a tar archive in which each filename is preceded by `project/`. +Versions of Git older than 1.7.7 don't know about the 'tar.gz' format, +you'll need to use gzip explicitly: + +------------------------------------------------- +$ git archive --format=tar --prefix=project/ HEAD | gzip >latest.tar.gz +------------------------------------------------- + If you're releasing a new version of a software project, you may want to simultaneously make a changelog to include in the release announcement. -- 1.8.1.336.g94702dd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
