Re: Fwd: Re: git checkout -f branch doesn't remove extra files

Dear diary, on Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 07:05:11AM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] told me that...

If you really want a temporary tree, what you do is something like

	git-checkout-cache --prefix=tmp-dir/ -f -a

and when you're done, you just do

	rm -rf tmp-dir

and you're done.

NOTE NOTE NOTE! In the above, the order of the parameters is really really 
important! "-a" takes effect when it is seen, so it needs to be last. 
Also, the "--prefix" thing really _really_ needs the slash at the end, 
because it's literally used to prefix the pathname.

HOWEVER, if all you want to do is just a tar-file, then there's a better 
solution. It's called

	snap=git-snapshot-$(date +"%Y%m%d")
	git-tar-tree HEAD $snap | gzip -9 > $snap.tar.gz

which is even easier, and a hell of a lot more efficient.

To put my two cents too, Cogito has cg-export for this:

	cg-export tmp-dir

to export to a temporary directory and

	cg-export git-snapshot.tar.gz

to export to a gzipped tarball (it can also do .tar, .tgz and .tar.bz2).

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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