Merge branch 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git-gui

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 913528d3732999fd3c5a4648b8544fc80827d3dc..d3ca9a90cee97622d2a717d618da23d20aa248e4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-archive(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-archive - Creates a archive of the files in the named tree
+git-archive - Creates an archive of files from a named tree
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
@@ -30,16 +30,21 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 
 --format=<fmt>::
-       Format of the resulting archive: 'tar', 'zip'...
+       Format of the resulting archive: 'tar', 'zip'...  The default
+       is 'tar'.
 
---list::
+--list, -l::
        Show all available formats.
 
+--verbose, -v::
+       Report progress to stderr.
+
 --prefix=<prefix>/::
        Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
 
 <extra>::
        This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
+       See next section.
 
 --remote=<repo>::
        Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
@@ -52,6 +57,18 @@ path::
        If one or more paths are specified, include only these in the
        archive, otherwise include all files and subdirectories.
 
+BACKEND EXTRA OPTIONS
+---------------------
+
+zip
+~~~
+-0::
+       Store the files instead of deflating them.
+-9::
+       Highest and slowest compression level.  You can specify any
+       number from 1 to 9 to adjust compression speed and ratio.
+
+
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
 By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777 in tar