Mark Struberg <struberg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm the initial author of the Apache maven-scm-providers-git and > I need to update our SCM-Matrix. > > This is just for making sure I did not oversee anything. > > I didn't came across anything like 'cvs export' and I do not > think git really needs this, since it doesn't pollute the working > directories with lots of waste like CVS and SVN does. > > But I just want to make sure to not build workarounds in our > scm-provider (checkout + afterwards blasting the GIT_DIR) for things > that do exist natively in git. You can use: git archive --tar HEAD | (mkdir ../dest;cd ../dest;tar xf -) Or you can do something even more bizzare like: export GIT_INDEX_FILE=/tmp/$$.index; export GIT_WORK_TREE=../dest; export GIT_DIR=.git; git read-tree HEAD && git checkout-index --force --all && rm $GIT_INDEX_FILE -- Shawn. -- 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