I just pushed out this very useful thing to "checkout-cache", which is
best just described by its commit log:
Add the ability to prefix something to the pathname to "checkout-cache.c"
This basically makes it trivial to use checkout-cache as a "export as
tree" function. Just read the desired tree into the index, and do a
checkout-cache --prefix=export-dir/ -a
and checkout-cache will "export" the cache into the specified directory.
NOTE! The final "/" is important. The exported name is literally just
prefixed with the specified string, so you can also do something like
checkout-cache --prefix=.merged- Makefile
to check out the currently cached copy of "Makefile" into the file
".merged-Makefile".
Basically, I can do a a "git-0.6" release with a simple
checkout-cache --prefix=../git-0.6/ -a
which basically says: check out all files, but use the prefix
"../git-0.6/" before the filename when you do so.
Then I just do
cd ..
tar czvf git-0.6.tar.gz git-0.6
and I'm done. Very cool, very simple, and _extremely_ fast.
Doing the tree export (not the tar) for the whole kernel takes two minutes
in the cold-cache case (not so wonderful, but acceptable), and 4.6
_seconds_ in the hot-cache case (pretty damn impressive, I say).
(The compressng tar then takes about 20 seconds for me, and that's
obviously all from the cache, since I just wrote it out).
NOTE! The fact that the '/' at the end of the --prefix= thing is
meaningful can be very confusing, I freely admit. But it does end up being
potentially quite useful, and you're likely to script usage of this anyway
into "git export" or something, so...
Linus
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