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"title: Browse a git repository at a specific commit\n"
"date: 2020-08-14\n"
"layout: post\n"
"lang: en\n"
"ref: browse-a-git-repository-at-a-specific-commit"
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"I commonly use tools like `git log` together with `git show` when inspecting"
" past changes in a repository:"
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"But I also wanted to not only be able to look at the diff of a specific "
"commit, but to browse the whole repository at that specific commit."
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"I used to accomplish it the \"brute force\" way: clone the whole repository "
"in another folder and checkout the commit there:"
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"But git itself allows we to specific the directory of the checkout by using "
"the `--work-tree` global git flag. This is what `man git` says about it:"
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"So it allows us to set the desired path of the working tree. So if we want "
"to copy the contents of the current working tree into `copy/`:"
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"After that `copy/` will contain a replica of the code in HEAD. But to "
"checkout a specific, we need some extra parameters:"
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"There's an extra `-- .` at the end, which initially looks like we're sending"
" Morse signals to git, but we're actually saying to `git-checkout` which sub"
" directory of `<my-commit>` we want to look at. Which means we can do "
"something like:"
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"And with that `<dir>` will only contain what was inside `src/` at "
"`<commit>`."
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"After any of those checkouts, you have to `git reset .` to reset your "
"current staging area back to what it was before the checkout."
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msgid "References:"
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"[GIT: Checkout to a specific folder](https://stackoverflow.com/a/16493707) "
"(StackOverflow)"
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