/// <summary>
/// Checkout this commit into the given directory. Does not reset HEAD!
/// </summary>
/// <param name="working_directory">The directory to put the sources into</param>
public void Checkout(string working_directory)
{
// Todo: what happens with a bare repo here ??
if (InternalCommit == null)
throw new InvalidOperationException("Unable to checkout this commit. It was not initialized properly (i.e. the hash is not pointing to a commit object).");
if (working_directory == null)
throw new ArgumentException("Path to checkout directory must not be null");
if (new DirectoryInfo(working_directory).Exists == false)
throw new IOException("Cannot checkout into non-existent directory: " + working_directory);
var db = _repo._internal_repo;
var index = new GitSharp.Core.GitIndex(db);
CoreTree tree = InternalCommit.TreeEntry;
var co = new GitSharp.Core.WorkDirCheckout(db, new DirectoryInfo(working_directory), index, tree);
co.checkout();
if (working_directory == Repository.WorkingDirectory) // we wouldn't want to write index if the checkout was not done into the working directory or if the repo is bare, right?
index.write();
}