Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

> Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> That's what `git checkout` is for. And I would even argue that it's the better
>> choice in your situation because it would delete files from /var/www/foo which
>> you have deleted in your repo. git archive|tar wouldn't do that.
>
> The point about removal is an interesting one.  From that /var/www
> location I guess that you are discussing some webapp, but if you let
> it _write_ into it, you may also have to worry about how to handle
> the case where an update from the source end that comes from the
> checkout and an update by the webapp collide with each other.
>
> You also need to maintain the .git/index file that corresponds to
> what should be in /var/www/foo/ if you go that route.
>
> Just to be sure, I am not saying "checkout" is an inappropriate
> solution to whatever problem you are trying to solve. I am just
> pointing out things you need to be aware of if you take that
> approach.