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Re: does anything like cvs export exist in git?

From
Mark Struberg <struberg@yahoo.de>
Date
Aug 14, 2008, 22:09 UTC
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<52593.49180.qm@web27802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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<20080814212654.GS3782@spearce.org>
Hi Shawn!
Since maven-scm should run under various OS (including Windoof) the tar thingy will not work out.
The second approach is close to my original attempt to simply clone + checkout + rm -rf .git, isn't?.
At least I now know that it's really unlikely that this functionality does exist yet.

txs and LieGrü, strub

--- Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> schrieb am Do, 14.8.2008:
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> Von: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
> Betreff: Re: does anything like cvs export exist in git?
> An: "Mark Struberg" <struberg@yahoo.de>
> CC: git@vger.kernel.org
> Datum: Donnerstag, 14. August 2008, 23:26
> Mark Struberg <struberg@yahoo.de> wrote:
> > I'm the initial author of the Apache
> maven-scm-providers-git and
> > I need to update our SCM-Matrix.
> > 
> > This is just for making sure I did not oversee
> anything.
> > 
> > I didn't came across anything like 'cvs
> export' and I do not
> > think git really needs this, since it doesn't
> pollute the working
> > directories with lots of waste like CVS and SVN does.
> > 
> > But I just want to make sure to not build workarounds
> in our
> > scm-provider (checkout + afterwards blasting the
> GIT_DIR) for things
> > that do exist natively in git.
> 
> You can use:
> 
>   git archive --tar HEAD | (mkdir ../dest;cd ../dest;tar xf
> -)
> 
> Or you can do something even more bizzare like:
> 
>   export GIT_INDEX_FILE=/tmp/$$.index;
>   export GIT_WORK_TREE=../dest;
>   export GIT_DIR=.git;
>   git read-tree HEAD &&
>   git checkout-index --force --all &&
>   rm $GIT_INDEX_FILE
> 
> -- 
> Shawn.

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