Re: [Feature Request] git export

[Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>]

Hey Thomas,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Thomas Koch<thomas@koch.ro> wrote:
> could you please provide a simple solution to save a tree object into an
> arbitrary location?

This has been requested a few times and I have no idea what the
development status of it is.  Most people seem to recommend just
making an alias around git checkout-index.

> I found some hints, that it would be possible by missusing either git
> checkout-index or git-archive, but I think that it shouldn't require that much
> GIT FU to do such a simple thing.

It's not really a misuse, as the [man page
itself](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-checkout-index.html)
recommends using checkout-index as a way to export an entire tree.
Until someone decides that it's worth making the porcelain command
(like you perhaps) then I think you can just stick with checkout-index
knowing you're not abusing anything.

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