From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:54:24 GMT Subject: Re: [Feature Request] git export Message-ID: <7vk51b38zj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200908101822.59940.thomas@koch.ro> Thomas Koch writes: > could you please provide a simple solution to save a tree object into an > arbitrary location? > I found some hints, that it would be possible by missusing either git > checkout-index or git-archive, but I think that it shouldn't require that much If you are talking about a tree object, then git-archive is what you want. It was invented almost for this exact purpose, but unlike "export" that would only copy to a directory, you can get a tarball out of it when you do not want to expand the result into a directory; it is more versatile form. The manual page for the command has an example (look for "/var/tmp") so I won't repeat the cut-and-paste recipe here. If you are not talking about a tree object but is talking about the contents recorded in your index, checkout-index with the --prefix option may be what you want. The manual page for the command has an example (look for "--prefix=git-export-dir/") so I won't repeat it here.