On 02/03/2013 07:48 PM, Robert Clausecker wrote: > Hello! > > git currently has the archive command that allows to save an arbitrary > revision into a tar or zip file. Sometimes it is useful to not save this > revision into an archive but to directly put all files into an arbitrary > directory. Currently this seems to be not possible to archive directly; > the only way I found to do it is to run git archive and then directly > unpack the archive into a directory. > > git --git-dir REPO archive REVISION | tar x > > It would be nice to have a command or simply a switch to git archive > that allows the user to put the files of REVISION into a directory > instead of making an archive. Could you help me understand why piping it to tar (actually 'tar -C /dest/dir -x') is not sufficient to achieve what you want? -- 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