Exact `svn export` equivalent command for git?

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There is no exact svn export equivalent command for git? Really?

Beware: this is not a duplicate question. That is, I already know and have tested these commands:

  • git clone --depth 1 <- Still downloads the .git folder.
  • git checkout-init <- Doesn't work for a remote repo, it works with a working copy (so you need to clone first).
  • git archive <- This would be the perfect solution, because it has a --remote argument, but it only has 2 possible formats: tar or zip, so I would need to untar/unzip after downloading, and for that I need a pipe (|), but I'm on windows!! (not *n?x)
  • git clone --bare <- I still don't know what the heck this is, but it's not what I need.

Please enlighten me is there a real svn export replacement in git?

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This is a rather old questions, nevertheless I didn't find an "obvious solution" in my opinion. After some research of the git documentation I found:

git archive --format=tar --remote ... | tar xf -

This will receive the contents even from a remote repository and write a tar archive to stdout. The tar command then will extract the contents and create it in your current directory.

If you like to do that from a local repository (which was explicitly not the desired request in the question), then

git archive --format=tar ... | ( cd /your/path && tar xf - )

will do the trick for you. The first approach works on Windows command prompt as well, if you have tar installed. The latter most probably does not and may overwrite your directory.

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