archive: improve documentation of --prefix

index bc4e76a783..94519aae23 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ OPTIONS Report progress to stderr. --prefix=<prefix>/:: - Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive. + Prepend <prefix>/ to paths in the archive. Can be repeated; its + rightmost value is used for all tracked files. See below which + value gets used by `--add-file`. -o <file>:: --output=<file>:: @@ -57,9 +59,9 @@ OPTIONS --add-file=<file>:: Add a non-tracked file to the archive. Can be repeated to add - multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built - by concatenating the value for `--prefix` (if any) and the - basename of <file>. + multiple files. The path of the file in the archive is built by + concatenating the value of the last `--prefix` option (if any) + before this `--add-file` and the basename of <file>. --worktree-attributes:: Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working tree @@ -194,6 +196,12 @@ EXAMPLES commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is inferred by the extension of the output file. +`git archive -o latest.tar --prefix=build/ --add-file=configure --prefix= HEAD`:: + + Creates a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest + commit on the current branch with no prefix and the untracked + file 'configure' with the prefix 'build/'. + `git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"`:: Configure a "tar.xz" format for making LZMA-compressed tarfiles.