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From: Gianluca Pacchiella <gianluca.pacchiella@ktln2.org>
Subject: Checkout of orphan branch files into mainline worktree
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:39:42 +0100
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Hi folks,

I have a repository where I maintain a project for a web site with a branch
(disconnected from the mainline history) that contains some files
(necessary only for a particular instance of a site) that don't intersect
with others files in the main project. Since I don't want to use submodule
and subtree I manage myself to this sequence of commands ("deploy" is the
branch name of the mainline history and "index" of the --orphan branch) to
checkout the index's files into the mainline files

git read-tree index && ( git ls-files --with-tree=index | git
checkout-index --stdin ) && git read-tree deploy

Are there some other ways to do this? I'm crazy? are there side effects?

Thanks,
	Gianluca