GIT-GET-TAR-COMMIT-ID(1)	   Git Manual		GIT-GET-TAR-COMMIT-ID(1)

NAME
     git-get-tar-commit-id  -  Extract	commit	ID from an archive created using
     git-archive

SYNOPSIS
     git get-tar-commit-id

DESCRIPTION
     Read a tar archive created by git archive from the standard input	and  ex-
     tract the commit ID stored in it. It reads only the first 1024 bytes of in-
     put, thus its runtime is not influenced by the size of the tar archive very
     much.

     If no commit ID is found, git get-tar-commit-id quietly exits with a return
     code  of  1.  This can happen if the archive had not been created using git
     archive or if the first parameter of git archive had been a tree ID instead
     of a commit ID or tag.

GIT
     Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.55.0			   2026-06-29		GIT-GET-TAR-COMMIT-ID(1)