From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:15:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Exporting a tree from a repository
Message-ID: <20070715091510.GC2568@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <8e04b5820707150012r13c5db69g96b97d910dc1b137@mail.gmail.com>

Ciprian Dorin Craciun, Sun, Jul 15, 2007 09:12:08 +0200:
>    Now for the export thing... I know that I can just clone the
> remote repository and then remove the .git folder, but for my purpose
> I just want to have the HEAD tree downloaded, without any history...
> And by using git clone I end up downloading much more than I actually
> need.

Well, if you have a ssh access to remote repository, you can run
git-archive there:

    $ ssh -n 'cd /dir/repo/.git && git --bare archive --prefix=<local-path> <tree>' |tar xf -

or even simplier:

    $ git archive --remote=<remote-host:remote-path> --prefix=<local-path>/ <tree> |tar xf -

(for whatever reason it does not work with just git-daemon).