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checkout without touching HEAD

From
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 27, 2007, 22:22 UTC
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Is there a way to get a 'checkout' of a treeish _directly_ from git to an empty (or 'no conflicting paths'-guaranteed) directory, without touching HEAD?

Using `git-archive ... | tar -x` is a waste of time and resources -- I do want this to be fast for large datasets. I have hacked it a bit by backing up HEAD, using git checkout with a temporary index, and then restoring HEAD, which I can do because my script has a big fat lock around it. But it's very un-gittish to need a big lock around me.

Maybe there's a command I'm missing? Or a zikrit option to checkout I haven't found?

cheers,
m
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