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Re: Decompressing a tree to a location other than the working directory

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 6, 2010, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID
<20100806184345.GB2985@burratino>
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Joshua Shrader wrote:
> git checkout allows one to checkout a particular version of a certain
> path in the working directory.  Are there accessible plumbing commands
> that can be used to accomplish the same thing, but change the target
> directory.

I don’t know if it is plumbing, but "git archive" is very useful for that.

 $ git archive HEAD^:Documentation | (cd elsewhere && tar xf -)

Hope that helps, Jonathan

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