From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
To: thomas@koch.ro
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Feature Request] git export
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:31:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c115fd3c0908101131n20237b8bsb5f5a06ec4b2189c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908101841.00522.thomas@koch.ro>
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Thomas Koch<thomas@koch.ro> wrote:
> thanks for your explanation. Still I don't get how to do it with git checkout-
> index. The man page says "Just read the desired tree into the index", but I
> don't know what is meant by this.
No problem. That phrase gave me some trouble the first time I read it
too. All it means is 'do a `git checkout` of the branch that you want
to export'. `git checkout-index` will then do an export of the
contents the branch that you currently have checked out.
Junio and Dscho's comments are possibly salient as well.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-10 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-10 16:22 [Feature Request] git export Thomas Koch
2009-08-10 16:27 ` Tim Visher
2009-08-10 16:41 ` Thomas Koch
2009-08-10 18:31 ` Tim Visher [this message]
2009-08-10 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-10 16:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-11 7:50 ` Michael J Gruber
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