Merge "checkout ambiguous ref bugfix" into maint

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-archive.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index e57979198ba880379056189860275724eec7fd3e..bf5037ab2a5042a20e9cb603f0831bb186ac3b74 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git archive' [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
              [-o | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
              [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
-             [path...]
+             [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ 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
+'git archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
 given a commit ID or tag ID.  In the first case the current time is
 used as the modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
 used instead.  Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
-using 'git-get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
+using 'git get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
 comment.
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <tree-ish>::
        The tree or commit to produce an archive for.
 
-path::
+<path>::
        Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories
        of the current working directory are included in the archive.
        If one or more paths are specified, only these are included.
@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ export-subst::
        expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
        See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
 
+Note that attributes are by default taken from the `.gitattributes` files
+in the tree that is being archived.  If you want to tweak the way the
+output is generated after the fact (e.g. you committed without adding an
+appropriate export-ignore in its `.gitattributes`), adjust the checked out
+`.gitattributes` file as necessary and use `--worktree-attributes`
+option.  Alternatively you can keep necessary attributes that should apply
+while archiving any tree in your `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file.
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::