On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 03:18:05PM +0100, Robert Clausecker wrote: > git currently has the archive command that allows to save an arbitrary > revision into a tar or zip file. Sometimes it is useful to not save this > revision into an archive but to directly put all files into an arbitrary > directory. Currently this seems to be not possible to archive directly; > the only way I found to do it is to run git archive and then directly > unpack the archive into a directory. > > git --git-dir REPO archive REVISION | tar x > > It would be nice to have a command or simply a switch to git archive > that allows the user to put the files of REVISION into a directory > instead of making an archive.
You could use plumbing commands combined with a throwaway custom index file and a separate work tree which will receive the tree at REVISION: export GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/dest/directory export GIT_DIR=/path/to/repo/.git export GIT_INDEX_FILE="$GIT_WORK_TREE/.index" git read-tree REVISION git checkout-index -a rm -f "$GIT_INDEX_FILE" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
