How to check out a version with tig or command line?

Question

I have a git repository on my machine, and at the moment it is only for this machine and myself to trace different versions of development.

I have been using basically git console commands, and tig to visualize different commits.

I just want to know what is the simplest way to check out a version, to another working folder on my machine...

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 28 '12 at 14:48

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»[…] check out a version, to another working folder« suggests that you are looking for the git clone command:

git clone /path/to/your/repo /new/repo
cd /new/repo
git checkout <branch/tag/sha1>

answered Jan 28 '12 at 14:48

knittl

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

You can use git checkout-index if you want to export only the files.

If your working directory is "dirty", stash away your changes with git stash
Checkout the version you want with git checkout <version>
Export to desired directory with git checkout-index -a -f --prefix=/destination/path/
Go back to where you were with git checkout HEAD@{1}
Pop your changes back off with git stash pop

If your working directory is clean you can omit steps 1 and 5.

Here is SO answer with some more details.

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