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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Decompressing a tree to a location other than the working
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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:43:45 -0500
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Joshua Shrader wrote:

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

I don=E2=80=99t know if it is plumbing, but "git archive" is very usefu=
l for
that.

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

Hope that helps,
Jonathan