Subject: Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

From: Robert Clausecker <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:10:40 +0100

That is actually a pretty interesting approach. I can use a different
index file for different deployments. How does this cooperate with bare
repositories? Aren't they supposed to have no index file at all?

Am Samstag, den 09.02.2013, 20:06 -0800 schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> My advice is to keep a separate index file for your exported files.
> Like this:
> 
> 	GIT_DIR=$(readlink -f $(git rev-parse --git-dir))
> 	GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_DIR/index-for-deployment
> 	export GIT_DIR GIT_INDEX_FILE
> 
> 	cd $dest
> 	git read-tree -m -u <tree>
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan