From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:00:28 -0800 Message-ID: <7vehgpum7n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1359901085.24730.11.camel@t520> <510E8F82.9050306@gmail.com> <1359915086.24730.19.camel@t520> <510F03FC.6080501@gmail.com> <1360425499.3369.10.camel@t520> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Phil Hord To: Robert Clausecker X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 10 00:00:59 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U4JPh-0005RF-SE for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:00:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758543Ab3BIXAb (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:00:31 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:41371 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758441Ab3BIXAa (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:00:30 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B288C7FE; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:00:30 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=yqcoPuaHWSnVz1IwUIkhqZS9U88=; b=MRnWt0 Xc8F8DVqvPHlpY2F6p96puwQkuLJw1G+uzlPKM5DyZCiAEV/Bu6iyp0NgwSrENrA d+LVSan26uv2F2iajEiyUVyyRn5TAaFhsXrHgSX3f/y+4s0vOpn1CpCSYp+7Npag Pr8artRqQp061iiGeCAlaJi9Nb10k+OBHMKmU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=LsQ+SqzCfF3aNZ5CgqFSAQMwlkF31iyQ FPfvCgEVOTIeDoIkyVpgVHHJHSgkjoh9fevGcsBVXWtWQlf+zJbUCOG+GZJiFtYa 1jOq811p8oVzdnoe9jwgUrP43PAHoSXpEwe+EC0Zny1Cxk7u4T/K1TTtC8SQhw1r lvVTaiSipe4= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D937C7FD; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:00:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A7550C7F9; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:00:29 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <1360425499.3369.10.camel@t520> (Robert Clausecker's message of "Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:58:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 7FE323B6-730C-11E2-827B-BCD12E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Robert Clausecker writes: > After thinking a while about how to solve the problems I have, I > consider the following things as a solution to my problem. > > Add an option --isolated, -i to git checkout: Check out a branch / tag / > revision but do not touch the index. This could be used together with > --work-tree to check out a branch into an arbitrary directory. Also, it > satisfies all 4 criteria from [1] and therefore is perfect for > deployment from a bare repository. > > What do you think about this feature request? I am not Phil, but if you ask me, I think it is borderline between "meh" and "no way we would give a short-and-sweet -i to something like this".