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+git-tar-tree(1)
+===============
+
+NAME
+----
+git-tar-tree - Creates a tar archive of the files in the named tree
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'git-tar-tree' [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [ <base> ]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree.
+When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path to the files in the
+generated tar archive.
+
+git-tar-tree 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
+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.
+It can be extracted using git-get-tar-commit-id.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+
+<tree-ish>::
+	The tree or commit to produce tar archive for.  If it is
+	the object name of a commit object.
+
+<base>::
+	Leading path to the files in the resulting tar archive.
+
+--remote=<repo>::
+	Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
+	retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
+
+Examples
+--------
+git tar-tree HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && mkdir junk && tar Cxf junk -)::
+
+	Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
+	latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
+	`/var/tmp/junk` directory.
+
+git tar-tree v2.6.17 linux-2.6.17 | gzip >linux-2.6.17.tar.gz
+
+	Create a tarball for v2.6.17 release.
+
+git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v0.99 >git-0.99.tar
+
+	Get a tarball v0.99 from example.com.
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Rene Scharfe.
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+