I would have never thought to read that thread based on the title :)
I did find something here that I think answers my question
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4479960/git-checkout-to-a-specific-folder
On Monday, October 21, 2013 10:55:31 AM UTC-4, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
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> On Mon, 21
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:43:15 -0700 (PDT)
Aaron Cook wrote:
> I need to checkout a copy of a folder into another temporary
> "scratch" folder.
>
> For example, I have a directory
>
> /myproject/junk
>
> I want to checkout a previous copy of "junk into "junk_temp" so I get
> /myproject/junk <- H
