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Documentation/git-archive.txt: a couple of clarifications.

The description of the option gave impression that there
were several formats available by using three dots. There are
no other formats than tar and gzip currently supported.

Clarify that the archive goes to the standard output.

Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jari Aalto 2007-09-14 21:38:02 +03:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 0024a54923
commit 42b5f8693e

@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Creates an archive of the specified format containing the tree
structure for the named tree. If <prefix> is specified it is
structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard
output. If <prefix> is specified it is
prepended to the filenames in the archive.
'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ OPTIONS
-------
--format=<fmt>::
Format of the resulting archive: 'tar', 'zip'... The default
Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. The default
is 'tar'.
--list, -l::