Example

<tar destfile="phing.tar">
 <fileset dir=".">
	 <include name="**/**" />
 </fileset>
</tar>

The above example uses a fileset to determine which files to include in the archive.

<tar destfile="phing.tar.gz" basedir="." compression="gzip"/>

The second example uses the basedir attribute to include the contents of that directory (including subdirectories) in the archive, compressing the archive using gzip.