On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Stefan Karpinski <stefan.karpinski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Sam Vilain <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> + * 'git export' command that does what >> + 'git archive --format=tar --prefix=dir | tar x' does now > > It would be nice if the "git export" command could "checkout" a > non-repo copy of a remote repo at a specific version. This would be as > simple as calling archive on the remote size and then unarchiving it > locally. But would of course take care of all the plumbing. I'm not sure whether the "git archive | tar" or the following is more efficient: export GIT_INDEX_FILE="$(mktemp .git/export-index.XXXXXX)" git read-tree -i "$1" git checkout-index -f -a --prefix="$2/" Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- 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
