Re: Exporting a tree from a repository

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Jul 14, 2007, 21:46 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707142237190.13310@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <8e04b5820707141325o400e170bu9eb80b304cae506b@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:

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>   Hello all!
>
>   I am a new GIT user, I like it, so I started playing with it for
> different projects I work on.
>
>   Currently I am playing with "Linux from Scratch", and I have
> written some scripts to automatize the build process -- kind of
> install scripts...
>
>   For this I use GIT to store all the source packages -- each inside
> it's own branch :).
>
>   My question is the following: How can I export an entire tree
> without using a working directory, or cloning the repository. (Because
> from what I have seen so far there is no way to use the same
> repository with many working directories...)

You can have as many working directories as you want from one repository using the git-new-workdir script from contrib/workdir. You do need to be careful when updating references though (you basically want to avoid updating a reference that you are using in another working directory).

You should also be able to use this to get an "export" - simply create the new workdir and then remove the .git (being careful not to accidentally do this in your actual repository). However I expect there is a better way to do this ...

-- 
Julian

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