From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:26:54 GMT
Subject: Re: does anything like cvs export exist in git?
Message-ID: <20080814212654.GS3782@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <977100.98240.qm@web27803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Mark Struberg <struberg@yahoo.de> wrote:
> I'm the initial author of the Apache maven-scm-providers-git and
> I need to update our SCM-Matrix.
> 
> This is just for making sure I did not oversee anything.
> 
> I didn't came across anything like 'cvs export' and I do not
> think git really needs this, since it doesn't pollute the working
> directories with lots of waste like CVS and SVN does.
> 
> But I just want to make sure to not build workarounds in our
> scm-provider (checkout + afterwards blasting the GIT_DIR) for things
> that do exist natively in git.

You can use:

  git archive --tar HEAD | (mkdir ../dest;cd ../dest;tar xf -)

Or you can do something even more bizzare like:

  export GIT_INDEX_FILE=/tmp/$$.index;
  export GIT_WORK_TREE=../dest;
  export GIT_DIR=.git;
  git read-tree HEAD &&
  git checkout-index --force --all &&
  rm $GIT_INDEX_FILE

-- 
Shawn.