git copy particular version of repository

Question

I\'m new to git so forgive me if this is a dumb question. I have a git repository and I need to copy a particular revision of the repository to its own separate directory. T

Answer 1

 git archive master >specificversion.tar

replace master by a commit identifier

If you want to immediately 'check it out', consider

 git archive master | (cd /tmp/exportlocation && tar x)

git archive (as usual) comes with a load of other useful options

Answer 2

Update

It's better to use the archive option mentioned by Sehe

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What I would do is just checkout that particular version:

git checkout <commit-sha1>

And then just copy all the contents except for the .git dir

rcopy --exclude=.git . ~/some-folder/

And then you could do

git checkout master

to reset the repository to the master branch again.