Re: [Feature Request] git export

Thomas Koch [off-list ref] writes:

could you please provide a simple solution to save a tree object into an 
arbitrary location?
I found some hints, that it would be possible by missusing either git 
checkout-index or git-archive, but I think that it shouldn't require that much 

If you are talking about a tree object, then git-archive is what you want.
It was invented almost for this exact purpose, but unlike "export" that
would only copy to a directory, you can get a tarball out of it when you
do not want to expand the result into a directory; it is more versatile
form.  The manual page for the command has an example (look for
"/var/tmp") so I won't repeat the cut-and-paste recipe here.

If you are not talking about a tree object but is talking about the
contents recorded in your index, checkout-index with the --prefix option
may be what you want.  The manual page for the command has an example
(look for "--prefix=git-export-dir/") so I won't repeat it here.