Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp

["Kyle Moffett" <kyle@moffetthome.net>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Stefan Karpinski
<stefan.karpinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:
>> +  * 'git export' command that does what
>> +    'git archive --format=tar --prefix=dir | tar x' does now
>
> It would be nice if the "git export" command could "checkout" a
> non-repo copy of a remote repo at a specific version. This would be as
> simple as calling archive on the remote size and then unarchiving it
> locally. But would of course take care of all the plumbing.

I'm not sure whether the "git archive | tar" or the following is more efficient:

export GIT_INDEX_FILE="$(mktemp .git/export-index.XXXXXX)"
git read-tree -i "$1"
git checkout-index -f -a --prefix="$2/"

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett