Hi Tim, 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. > Hey Thomas, > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Thomas Koch<thomas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > could you please provide a simple solution to save a tree object into an > > arbitrary location? > > This has been requested a few times and I have no idea what the > development status of it is. Most people seem to recommend just > making an alias around git checkout-index. > > > 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. > > It's not really a misuse, as the [man page > itself](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-checkout-index. >html) recommends using checkout-index as a way to export an entire tree. > Until someone decides that it's worth making the porcelain command (like > you perhaps) then I think you can just stick with checkout-index knowing > you're not abusing anything. Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html