Is there a way to get a 'checkout' of a treeish _directly_ from git to an empty (or 'no conflicting paths'-guaranteed) directory, without touching HEAD? Using `git-archive ... | tar -x` is a waste of time and resources -- I do want this to be fast for large datasets. I have hacked it a bit by backing up HEAD, using git checkout with a temporary index, and then restoring HEAD, which I can do because my script has a big fat lock around it. But it's very un-gittish to need a big lock around me. Maybe there's a command I'm missing? Or a zikrit option to checkout I haven't found? cheers, m - 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
