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Re: does anything like cvs export exist in git?

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Aug 14, 2008, 22:11 UTC
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<20080814221148.GB10544@machine.or.cz>
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<977100.98240.qm@web27803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
  Hi,
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 09:20:10PM +0000, Mark Struberg wrote:
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> 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.
  I'm not sure what exactly do you want, but couldn't you abuse
git-cvsserver for the job?
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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