From: Joshua Shrader <jshrader83@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:43:21 GMT
Subject: Decompressing a tree to a location other than the working directory
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=RjcQ_-PNUt781jhYEA-8krqXpdHRenVyR_Rc4@mail.gmail.com>

git checkout allows one to checkout a particular version of a certain
path in the working directory.  Are there accessible plumbing commands
that can be used to accomplish the same thing, but change the target
directory.  For example, if I wanted to checkout a certain path, but
wanted to check it out somewhere external to my working directory /
repository?

Thanks,

Josh