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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: does anything like cvs export exist in git?
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:26:54 -0700
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Mark Struberg <struberg@yahoo.de> 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.