On Saturday 29 of September 2012 02:44:05 Darrell Anderson wrote: > > If you use in your scripts working tree contents, scripts > > use what you checkout before using scripts. Checkout simply ensures that > > the working tree will look like as it was at the required revision. > > > > But if you use in your scripts git calls - for example git > > archive, you have to make an adjustment in those scripts. > > This sounds like compiling directly in the GIT tree rather than copying > "out of source." I am and have been following the wiki to copy the sources > to a different location to build "out of source." > > Darrell > How you make: copying "out of source"? Copying the current contents of your git working tree? Well - then this is exactly what the checkout prepare. You can checkout your git working tree to state of 2012-04-01, then copy current contents of your working tree (precisely sources in state of 2012-04-01) "out of source" and build. Slavek --