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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:15:10 +0200
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Ciprian Dorin Craciun, Sun, Jul 15, 2007 09:12:08 +0200:
>    Now for the export thing... I know that I can just clone the
> remote repository and then remove the .git folder, but for my purpose
> I just want to have the HEAD tree downloaded, without any history...
> And by using git clone I end up downloading much more than I actually
> need.

Well, if you have a ssh access to remote repository, you can run
git-archive there:

    $ ssh -n 'cd /dir/repo/.git && git --bare archive --prefix=<local-path> <tree>' |tar xf -

or even simplier:

    $ git archive --remote=<remote-host:remote-path> --prefix=<local-path>/ <tree> |tar xf -

(for whatever reason it does not work with just git-daemon).