From: Tomas Carnecky Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:47:45 GMT Subject: Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories Message-ID: <1359982065-ner-9588@calvin> In-Reply-To: <1359980045.24730.32.camel@t520> On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:14:05 +0100, Robert Clausecker wrote: > Of course that is a possibility but it does not not feel right and is > not intuitive. Adding this feature won't cause feature creep but would > rather add an operation that makes sense in some scenarios and reduces > the dependencies on other commands that might not be available on other > platforms (If you care about that). I'd really like to see your reply to Sitaram's email regarding the many options that tar has. Sure, just teaching git-archive the equivalent of `|tar -x' probably isn't feature creep. But why stop there and not add some of the other options as well? After all, some might be equally useful in a different situation. So where do you stop? When you've completely merged tar into git? > Also, this functionality is in full accordance with the Unix principle > as it is a basic operation ("put tree into files") and not something > super special. That's what `git checkout` is for. And I would even argue that it's the better choice in your situation because it would delete files from /var/www/foo which you have deleted in your repo. git archive|tar wouldn't do that.