git-export

Description

git-export is a small tool to easily export a ref from a remote git repository into a local directory.

The result is still a git repository but no requirement is needed. Indeed this tool do:

create the target directory if needed
depending on status of target directory, choose wisely between git clone, git reset --hard, git fetch or git checkout
an additionally git clean -dfx is executed if <must-clean> parameter is setted to 1

This tool is especially convenient to prepare rsync to multiple destinations in case of software deployment. You specify a branch or a tag and if the local directory is preserved between deployments, then only a fast git fetch is executed. So in particular only date of updated files are updated and allow an efficient rsync.

Usage

$ bash /path/to/git-export.sh <url-repo-git> <git-ref-to-export> <local-dir> [<must-clean>]

Example:

$ ./git-export.sh git@github.com:geoffroy-aubry/git-export.git master /tmp/my-export

Copyrights & licensing

Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3. See LICENSE file for details.