It there a built in Git command for checking out a Git ref or branch into a non git directory?

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I am compiling source from a local git mirror in a separate directory, ie I don't do any work in the Git directory, I just need the source code from it.

Of course I go into the Git directory, check out the ref I want and copy it into the compilation directory, but I want to know if there is a git command for doing it directly

Something along the lines of:

git checkout file://home/user/repo.get treeish  /my/working/directory

This question is a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/q/160608/978525 — Eamonn O'Brien-Strain, Mar 07 '15 at 06:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '15 at 07:10

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I don't know a command which can extract a tree from the repository, but the git archive command can create a tarball (or other format) of the tree at a given commit:

git archive --format=tar <commit-id> > project.tar

answered Mar 07 '15 at 07:10

davidriod

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 07 '15 at 12:20

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If you want the LAST commit, a git clone --depth 1 could do the trick also...

answered Mar 07 '15 at 12:20

Philippe

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It there a built in Git command for checking out a Git ref or branch into a non git directory?

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