Re: Feature request: Allow extracting revisions into directories

Hi Robert,

Robert Clausecker wrote:

There are two things git archive is missing that are needed in my use
case:

First, git archive in combination with tar won't remove unneeded files.
You have to run rm -rf before manually which brings me to the next
point; git archive can't really make incremental updates.

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