From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:00:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories
Message-ID: <7vehgpum7n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1360425499.3369.10.camel@t520>

Robert Clausecker <fuzxxl@gmail.com> writes:

> After thinking a while about how to solve the problems I have, I
> consider the following things as a solution to my problem.
>
> Add an option --isolated, -i to git checkout: Check out a branch / tag /
> revision but do not touch the index. This could be used together with
> --work-tree to check out a branch into an arbitrary directory. Also, it
> satisfies all 4 criteria from [1] and therefore is perfect for
> deployment from a bare repository.
>
> What do you think about this feature request?

I am not Phil, but if you ask me, I think it is borderline between
"meh" and "no way we would give a short-and-sweet -i to something
like this".