Robert Clausecker venit, vidit, dixit 03.02.2013 15:18: > 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. > > Thank you very much for your help. Yours, > > Robert Clausecker Sitaram has said much about the Unix philosophy already, and Konstantin gave a variant of checkout. Just two more cents: How would you copy a directory tree? I presume you wouldn't use "tar c . | tar -xC gothere", but what would be your worklflow? Depending on what you actually want to achieve, "git clone -b branch" and removing the superfluous .git-dir might be a viable option. (Beware the hardlinks, though.) Michael -- 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