Re: Exporting a tree from a repository

["Ciprian Dorin Craciun" <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>]

On 7/15/07, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
>
> >   Hello all!
> >
> >   I am a new GIT user, I like it, so I started playing with it for
> > different projects I work on.
> >
> >   Currently I am playing with "Linux from Scratch", and I have
> > written some scripts to automatize the build process -- kind of
> > install scripts...
> >
> >   For this I use GIT to store all the source packages -- each inside
> > it's own branch :).
> >
> >   My question is the following: How can I export an entire tree
> > without using a working directory, or cloning the repository. (Because
> > from what I have seen so far there is no way to use the same
> > repository with many working directories...)
>
> You can have as many working directories as you want from one repository
> using the git-new-workdir script from contrib/workdir.  You do need to be
> careful when updating references though (you basically want to avoid
> updating a reference that you are using in another working directory).
>
> You should also be able to use this to get an "export" - simply create the
> new workdir and then remove the .git (being careful not to accidentally do
> this in your actual repository).  However I expect there is a better way
> to do this ...
>
> --
> Julian
>
>   ---
> Quark!  Quark!  Beware the quantum duck!


    Thank you for the hint about git-new-workdir! I will try it.

    Now for the export thing... I know that I can just clone the
remote repository and then remove the .git folder, but for my purpose
I just want to have the HEAD tree downloaded, without any history...
And by using git clone I end up downloading much more than I actually
need.

    I am looking for a feature like 'svn export <repo+tree_path>
<destination_path>'...

    Ciprian.