user-manual: use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball
This functionality was introduced by 0e804e09 (archive: provide
builtin .tar.gz filter, 2011-07-21) for v1.7.7.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 8074313..52c8523 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -931,11 +931,20 @@
any version of a project; for example:
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-$ git archive --format=tar --prefix=project/ HEAD | gzip >latest.tar.gz
+$ git archive -o latest.tar.gz --prefix=project/ HEAD
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-will use HEAD to produce a tar archive in which each filename is
-preceded by "project/".
+will use HEAD to produce a gzipped tar archive in which each filename
+is preceded by `project/`. The output file format is inferred from
+the output file extension if possible, see linkgit:git-archive[1] for
+details.
+
+Versions of Git older than 1.7.7 don't know about the 'tar.gz' format,
+you'll need to use gzip explicitly:
+
+-------------------------------------------------
+$ git archive --format=tar --prefix=project/ HEAD | gzip >latest.tar.gz
+-------------------------------------------------
If you're releasing a new version of a software project, you may want
to simultaneously make a changelog to include in the release
