Re: [Feature Request] git export

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 10, 2009, 16:56 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908101855260.8324@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <200908101822.59940.thomas@koch.ro>

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Thomas Koch wrote:

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> 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 GIT FU to do such a simple thing.

You can check out Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh and find that something like

	GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/tmp
	export GIT_INDEX_FILE
	git read-tree $TREE
	git checkout-index -a -f --prefix=/the/path
	unset GIT_INDEX_FILE

should work.

Hth, Dscho