From 7ed1690c343dc16dfd5a5493589cbf74d503c238 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:16:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] user-manual: use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 8074313f8..52c8523c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -931,11 +931,20 @@ 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 -o latest.tar.gz --prefix=project/ HEAD ------------------------------------------------- -will use HEAD to produce a tar archive in which each filename is -preceded by "project/". +will use HEAD to produce a gzipped tar archive in which each filename +is preceded by `project/`. The output file format is inferred from +the output file extension if possible, see linkgit:git-archive[1] for +details. + +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 -- 2.26.2