Passing tar(1) options via git-archive(1)

Some background from the git-archive(1) man page: 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 r

Re: Passing tar(1) options via git-archive(1)

"brian m. carlson" writes: > Git does not invoke tar(1). It has its own tar (actually, pax) > implementation, so any options would have to be implemented in Git. > We'd probably want to make such a change effective in the zip format > as well. Ah, I see... Well, I guess in the meantime I'll ju