Joshua Shrader wrote: > git checkout allows one to checkout a particular version of a certain > path in the working directory. Are there accessible plumbing commands > that can be used to accomplish the same thing, but change the target > directory. I don’t know if it is plumbing, but "git archive" is very useful for that. $ git archive HEAD^:Documentation | (cd elsewhere && tar xf -) Hope that helps, Jonathan -- 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