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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Joshua Shrader <jshrader83@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Decompressing a tree to a location other than the working directory
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:43:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100806184345.GB2985@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=RjcQ_-PNUt781jhYEA-8krqXpdHRenVyR_Rc4@mail.gmail.com>

Joshua Shrader wrote:

> git checkout allows one to checkout a particular version of a certain
> path in the working directory.  Are there accessible plumbing commands
> that can be used to accomplish the same thing, but change the target
> directory.

I don’t know if it is plumbing, but "git archive" is very useful for
that.

 $ git archive HEAD^:Documentation | (cd elsewhere && tar xf -)

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-06 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-06 18:43 Decompressing a tree to a location other than the working directory Joshua Shrader
2010-08-06 18:43 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-08-07  3:10   ` Michael Witten
2010-08-06 19:58 ` Jakub Narebski

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