Re: [Feature Request] git export

From: Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>
Date: Aug 10, 2009, 16:41 UTC
Message-ID: <200908101841.00522.thomas@koch.ro>
In-Reply-To: <c115fd3c0908100927v4d9e4a87we4502e91d3789138@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Tim,

thanks for your explanation. Still I don't get how to do it with git checkout- index. The man page says "Just read the desired tree into the index", but I don't know what is meant by this.

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> Hey Thomas,
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Thomas Koch<thomas@koch.ro> wrote:
> > could you please provide a simple solution to save a tree object into an
> > arbitrary location?
>
> This has been requested a few times and I have no idea what the
> development status of it is.  Most people seem to recommend just
> making an alias around git checkout-index.
>
> > I found some hints, that it would be possible by missusing either git
> > checkout-index or git-archive, but I think that it shouldn't require that
> > much GIT FU to do such a simple thing.
>
> It's not really a misuse, as the [man page
> itself](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-checkout-index.
>html) recommends using checkout-index as a way to export an entire tree.
> Until someone decides that it's worth making the porcelain command (like
> you perhaps) then I think you can just stick with checkout-index knowing
> you're not abusing anything.

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro