git export plus non-commited files

Question

I want to copy a folder in a git repository to make a new repository (If you need to know why, I created a rails project one folder below git root, and Heroku really dislikes this).

I did a git-archive step as suggested on this question. However there are several files that are un-commited that were not moved by the git-archive step.

Any suggestions to quickly copy the uncommited files to the exported folder? Even a way to list uncommited files could work, so I can go an use that to copy them with some script

Answer 1

You could try copying all directories/files in your folder except for the .git directory. See option 1 in this answer to GIT - copy newest branch to another directory.