How to git clone a specific tag

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From git-clone 1  Manual Page     --branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in the resulting repository    I tried    git clone --branch  lt tag name gt   lt repo url gt    But it does not work  It returns     warning  Remote branch 2 13 0 not found in upstream origin  using HEAD instead   How to use this parameter

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git clone -b 13 1rc1-Gotham  --depth 1  https   github com xbmc xbmc git Cloning into  xbmc     remote  Counting objects  17977  done  remote  Compressing objects  100   13473 13473   done  Receiving objects   36   6554 17977   19 21 MiB   469 KiB s       Will be faster than    git clone https   github com xbmc xbmc git Cloning into  xbmc     remote  Reusing existing pack  281705  done  remote  Counting objects  533  done  remote  Compressing objects  100   177 177   done  Receiving objects   14   40643 282238   55 46 MiB   578 KiB s   Or   git clone -b 13 1rc1-Gotham  https   github com xbmc xbmc git Cloning into  xbmc     remote  Reusing existing pack  281705  done  remote  Counting objects  533  done  remote  Compressing objects  100   177 177   done  Receiving objects   12   34441 282238   20 25 MiB   461 KiB s

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Cloning a specific tag  might return  detached HEAD  state   As a workaround  try to clone the repo first  and then checkout a specific tag  For example   repo url https   github com owner project git repo dir   basename  repo url  git  repo tag 0 5  git clone --single-branch  repo url   using --depth 1 can show no tags git --work-tree  repo dir --git-dir  repo dir  git checkout tags  repo tag   Note  Since Git 1 8 5  you can use -C  lt path gt   instead of --work-tree and  --git-dir

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git clone --depth 1 --branch  lt tag name gt   lt repo url gt   Example  git clone --depth 1 --branch 0 37 2 https   github com apache incubator-superset git   lt tag name gt    0 37 2   lt repo url gt    https   github com apache incubator-superset git

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Use --single-branch option to only clone history leading to tip of the tag  This saves a lot of unnecessary code from being cloned   git clone  lt repo url gt  --branch  lt tag name gt  --single-branch

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git clone --depth 1 --branch  lt tag name gt   lt repo url gt   --depth 1 is optional but if you only need the state at that one revision  you probably want to skip downloading all the history up to that revision

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Use the command  git clone --help   to see whether your git supports the command  git clone --branch tag name   If not  just do the following   git clone repo url  cd repo git checkout tag name

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