From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:43:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Decompressing a tree to a location other than the working directory
Message-ID: <20100806184345.GB2985@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=RjcQ_-PNUt781jhYEA-8krqXpdHRenVyR_Rc4@mail.gmail.com>

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