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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Checking out a branch in another directory
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:23:51 -0500
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Hi Luben,

Luben Tuikov wrote:

> For the last 4 years, I've been using a home-brewed
> git-mkdir-of-branch.sh from a local branch, which basically creates
> a bunch of symlinks and then runs git-read-tree HEAD;
> git-checkout-index -u -q -f -a.

You might like contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir (shipped in
/usr/share/doc/git by most distros).

An occasional topic has been how to integrate this functionality
into "git clone".  See [1], for example.

Good luck,
Jonathan

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/150559/focus=151247