From: Tim Visher Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:31:22 GMT Subject: Re: [Feature Request] git export Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200908101841.00522.thomas@koch.ro> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: > thanks for your explanation. Still I don't get how to do it with git checkout- > index. The man page says "Just read the desired tree into the index", but I > don't know what is meant by this. No problem. That phrase gave me some trouble the first time I read it too. All it means is 'do a `git checkout` of the branch that you want to export'. `git checkout-index` will then do an export of the contents the branch that you currently have checked out. Junio and Dscho's comments are possibly salient as well. -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail