How to get certain commit from GitHub project

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I need to download the Facebook API from GitHub  Normally  I just click on the  Downloads  tab to download the latest source code  In this case  I need an older commit  91f256424531030a454548693c3a6ca49ca3f35a  but I have no idea how to get the entire project from that commit     Can someone please tell me how to do this    BTW  im on a mac  Don t know if that makes any difference

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Instead of navigating through the commits, you can also hit the y key (Github Help, Keyboard Shortcuts) to get the "permalink" for the current revision / commit.
This will change the URL from https://github.com/<user>/<repository> (master / HEAD) to https://github.com/<user>/<repository>/tree/<commit id>.

In order to download the specific commit, you'll need to reload the page from that URL, so the Clone or Download button will point to the "snapshot" https://github.com/<user>/<repository>/archive/<commit id>.zip instead of the latest https://github.com/<user>/<repository>/archive/master.zip.

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I don t know if it was there when you had posted this question  but the best and easiest way to download a commit is to click on the commits tab when viewing a repository  Then instead of clicking on the commit name  click on Browse the repository at this point in the history button with  lt   symbol to the right side of the commit name message  and finally on the Download ZIP button that comes when you click Clone or Download button   I hope it helps you guys

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As addition to the accepted answer   To see the hashes you need to use the suggested command  git checkout hash   you can use git log  Hoewever  depending on what you need  there is an easier way than copy pasting hashes   You can use git log --oneline to read many commit messages in a more compressed format    Lets say you see this a one-line list of the commits with minimal information and only partly visible hashes   hash111  HEAD - gt  master  origin master  origin HEAD  hash222 last commit hash333 I want this one hash444 did something        If you want last commit  you can use git checkout master   The   gives you the commit before the master  So hash222   If you want the n-th last commit  you can use git checkout master n  For example  using git checkout master 2would give you the commit hash333

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Sivan s answer in gif   1 Click on commits in github  2 Select Browse code on the right side of each commit   3 Click on download zip   which will download source code at that point of time of commit

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First  clone the repository using git  e g  with   git clone git   github com facebook facebook-ios-sdk git   That downloads the complete history of the repository  so you can switch to any version   Next  change into the newly cloned repository   cd facebook-ios-sdk       and use git checkout  lt COMMIT gt  to change to the right commit   git checkout 91f25642453   That will give you a warning  since you re no longer on a branch  and have switched directly to a particular version    This is known as  detached HEAD  state    Since it sounds as if you only want to use this SDK  rather than actively develop it  this isn t something you need to worry about  unless you re interested in finding out more about how git works

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write this to see your commits git log --oneline  copy the name of the commit you want to go back to  then write  git checkout  quot name of the commit quot   when you do this  the files of that commit will be replaced with your current files  then you can do whatever you want to these and once you re done  you can write the following command to extract the current files into another newly created branch so whatever you make doesn t have any danger for the previous branch that you extracted a commit from git checkout -b  quot name of a branch to extract the files to quot   right now  you have the content of a specified commit  into another branch

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If you want to go with any certain commit or want to code of any certain commit then you can use below command   git checkout  lt BRANCH NAME gt  git reset --hard   lt commit ID which code you want gt  git push --force   Example    git reset --hard fbee9dd   git push --force

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The easiest way that I found to recover a lost commit  that only exists on github and not locally  is to create a new branch that includes this commit    Have the commit open  url like  github com org repo commit long-commit-sha  Click  Browse Files  on the top right Click the dropdown  Tree  short-sha     on the top left Type in a new branch name git pull the new branch down to local

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To just download a commit using the 7-digit SHA1 short form do   Working Example   https   github com python cpython archive 31af650 zip     Description      https   github com username projectname archive commitshakey zip       If you have the long hash key 31af650ee25f65794b75d4dfefed6fe4758781c1  just get the first 7 chars 31af650  It s the default for GitHub

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The question title is ambiguous    If you need to get a commit  just use this URL  https   github com facebook facebook-ios-sdk commit 91f256424531030a454548693c3a6ca49ca3f35a patch  like explain here for the question How to download a single commit-diff from GitHub   if you need to download the entire project at the commit you need  use this URL  https   github com facebook facebook-ios-sdk archive 91f256424531030a454548693c3a6ca49ca3f35a zip if you need the git revision log  clone the repository and checkout the commit you want

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Try the following command sequence     git fetch origin  lt copy past commit sha1 here gt    git checkout FETCH HEAD   git push origin master

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