Dear diary, on Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 07:05:11AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html