"W. Trevor King" <wking@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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 <wking@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
This is a "meh" at least to me. Unless it uses something like
git archive -o latest.tar.gz --prefix=project/ HEAD
it is not all that interesting.
> 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.
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