Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

From: Robert Clausecker <fuzxxl@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 10, 2013, 04:10 UTC
Message-ID: <1360469440.6610.8.camel@t520>
In-Reply-To: <20130210040621.GA8584@elie.Belkin>

That is actually a pretty interesting approach. I can use a different index file for different deployments. How does this cooperate with bare repositories? Aren't they supposed to have no index file at all?

Am Samstag, den 09.02.2013, 20:06 -0800 schrieb Jonathan Nieder:

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> My advice is to keep a separate index file for your exported files.
> Like this:
> 
> 	GIT_DIR=$(readlink -f $(git rev-parse --git-dir))
> 	GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_DIR/index-for-deployment
> 	export GIT_DIR GIT_INDEX_FILE
> 
> 	cd $dest
> 	git read-tree -m -u <tree>
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan