"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. git read-tree -m -u HEAD $treeish - 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
