tar-tree: illustrate an obscure feature better
authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:26:27 +0000 (02:26 +0200)
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:18:13 +0000 (18:18 -0700)
Since you can tar just a subdirectory of a certain revision, tell
the users so, by showing an example how to do it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt

index 7a99acf2ec92f9bbab84b664d10bb442482c4911..1e1c7fa856a2b80bb839da805aa57d43f65f968e 100644 (file)
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ 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's Documentation/ directory
+       into 'git-1.4.0-docs.tar', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
+
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