On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 13:43, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -) For single files (rather than directories), you could do this: git show HEAD^:path/to/file > /some/path/file -- 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