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Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

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KKKonstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>
Date
Feb 3, 2013, 23:26 UTC
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 03:18:05PM +0100, Robert Clausecker wrote:
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> git currently has the archive command that allows to save an arbitrary
> revision into a tar or zip file. Sometimes it is useful to not save this
> revision into an archive but to directly put all files into an arbitrary
> directory. Currently this seems to be not possible to archive directly;
> the only way I found to do it is to run git archive and then directly
> unpack the archive into a directory.
> 
>     git --git-dir REPO archive REVISION | tar x
> 
> It would be nice to have a command or simply a switch to git archive
> that allows the user to put the files of REVISION into a directory
> instead of making an archive.

You could use plumbing commands combined with a throwaway custom index file and a separate work tree which will receive the tree at REVISION:

export GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/dest/directory export GIT_DIR=/path/to/repo/.git export GIT_INDEX_FILE="$GIT_WORK_TREE/.index" git read-tree REVISION git checkout-index -a rm -f "$GIT_INDEX_FILE"

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Message 13 of 22 in “Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories”
  1. Robert ClauseckerFeb 3, 2013
  2. Sitaram ChamartyFeb 3, 2013
  3. Robert ClauseckerFeb 3, 2013
  4. Sitaram ChamartyFeb 4, 2013
  5. Phil HordFeb 5, 2013
  6. Robert ClauseckerFeb 9, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2013
  9. Robert ClauseckerFeb 10, 2013
  10. Jonathan NiederFeb 10, 2013
  11. Robert ClauseckerFeb 10, 2013
  12. Jonathan NiederFeb 10, 2013
  13. Konstantin KhomoutovFeb 3, 2013
  14. Michael J GruberFeb 4, 2013
  15. Robert ClauseckerFeb 4, 2013
  16. Tomas CarneckyFeb 4, 2013
  17. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2013
  18. Sitaram ChamartyFeb 5, 2013
  19. Andrew ArdillFeb 4, 2013
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2013
  21. Andreas SchwabFeb 4, 2013
  22. Thomas KochFeb 10, 2013

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