How to clone git repository with specific revision changeset

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How can I clone git repository with specific revision  something like I usually do in Mercurial   hg clone -r 3  path to repository

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Using 2 of the above answers  How to clone git repository with specific revision changeset  and How to clone git repository with specific revision changeset   Helped me to come up with a definative   If you want to clone up to a point  then that point has to be a tag branch not simply an SHA or the FETCH HEAD gets confused   Following the git fetch set  if you use a branch or tag name  you get a response  if you simply use an SHA-1 you get not response  Here s what I did - create a full working clone of the full repo  from the actual origin  cd  lt path to create repo gt  git clone git  lt our gitlab server gt  ui-developers ui git    Then create a local branch  at the point that s interesting  git checkout 2050c8829c67f04b0db81e6247bb589c950afb14 git checkout -b origin point   Then create my new blank repo  with my local copy as its origin  cd  lt path to create repo gt  mkdir reduced-repo cd reduced-repo git init git remote add local copy  lt path to create repo gt  ui git fetch local copy origin point   At that point I got this response  I note it because if you use a SHA-1 in place of the branch above  nothing happens  so the response  means it worked    var www html ui-hacking  git fetch local copy origin point remote  Counting objects  45493  done  remote  Compressing objects  100   15928 15928   done  remote  Total 45493  delta 27508   reused 45387  delta 27463  Receiving objects  100   45493 45493   53 64 MiB   50 59 MiB s  done  Resolving deltas  100   27508 27508   done  From  var www html ui    branch            origin point -  FETCH HEAD     new branch       origin point -  origin origin point   Now in my case  I then needed to put that back onto gitlab  as a fresh repo so I did  git remote add origin git  lt our gitlab server gt  ui-developers new-ui git   Which meant I could rebuild my repo from the origin point by using git --git-dir    ui  git format-patch -k -1 --stdout  lt sha1 gt    git am -3 -k to cherry pick remotely then use git push origin to upload the whole lot back to its new home     Hope that helps someone

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If you mean you want to fetch everything from the beginning up to a particular point  Charles Bailey s answer is perfect   If you want to do the reverse and retrieve a subset of the history going back from the current date  you can use git clone --depth  N   where N is the number of revs of history you want   However      --depth            Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions  A shallow repository has a number of limitations  you cannot clone or fetch from it  nor push from nor into it   but is adequate if you are only interested in the recent history of a large project with a long history  and would want to send in fixes as patches

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Just to sum things up  git v  1 7 2 1     do a regular git clone where you want the repo  gets everything to date     I know  not what is wanted  we re getting there    git checkout  lt sha1 rev gt  of the rev you want git reset --hard git checkout -b master

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To clone only one single specific commit on a particular branch or tag use   git clone --depth 1 --branch NAME https   github com your repo git   Unfortunately  NAME can only be branch name or tag name  not commit SHA    Omit the --depth flag to download the whole history and then checkout that branch or tag   git clone --branch NAME https   github com your repo git   This works with recent version of git  I did it with version 2 18 0

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git clone https   github com ORGANIZATION repository git  clone the repository   cd repository  navigate to the repository   git fetch origin 2600f4f928773d79164964137d514b85400b09b2  git checkout FETCH HEAD

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Its simple  You just have to set the upstream for the current branch    git clone repo   git checkout -b newbranch   git branch --set-upstream-to origin branch newbranch   git pull   That s all

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git clone  URL   cd  PROJECT NAME   git reset --hard  SHA1   To again go back to the most recent commit    git pull

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TL DR - Just create a tag in the source repository against the commit you want to clone up to and use the tag in the fetch command  You can delete the tag from the original repo later to clean up   Well  its 2014 and it looks like Charles Bailey s accepted answer from 2010 is well and truly outdated by now and most  all   of the other answers involve cloning  which many people are hoping to avoid   The following solution achieves what the OP and many others are looking for  which is a way to create a copy of a repository  including history  but only up to a certain commit   Here are the commands I used with git version 2 1 2 to clone a local repo  ie  a repository in another directory  up to a certain point     in the source repository  create a tag against the commit you want to check out git tag -m  Temporary tag  tmptag  lt sha1 gt     create a new directory and change into that directory cd somewhere else mkdir newdir cd newdir       and create a new repository git init    add the source repository as a remote  this can be a URL or a directory  git remote add origin  path to original repo    fetch the tag  which will include the entire repo and history up to that point git fetch origin refs tags tmptag    reset the head of the repository git reset --hard FETCH HEAD    you can now change back to the original repository and remove the temporary tag cd original repo git tag -d tmptag   Hopefully this solution keeps working for a few more years   -

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git clone -o  lt sha1-of-the-commit gt   lt repository-url gt   lt local-dir-name gt    git uses the word origin in stead of popularly known revision  Following is a snippet from the manual   git help clone  --origin  lt name gt   -o  lt name gt      Instead of using the remote name origin to keep track of the upstream repository  use  lt name gt

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My version was a combination of accepted and most upvoted answers  But it s a little bit different  because everyone uses SHA1 but nobody tells you how to get it    git init   git remote add  lt remote url gt    git fetch --all   now you can see all branches  amp  commits    git branch -a   git log remotes origin master  lt -- or any other branch   Finally you know SHA1 of desired commit  git reset --hard  lt sha1 gt

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I use this snippet with GNU make to close any revision tag  branch or hash  it was tested on git version 2 17 1    dir       mkdir -p    D      git clone --recursive --depth 1 --branch   revison    url             git clone --recursive --branch   revison    url             git clone   url           cd       amp  amp  git reset --hard   revison      ls

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Cloning a git repository  aptly  clones the entire repository  there isn t a way to select only one revision to clone  However  once you perform git clone  you can checkout a specific revision by doing checkout  lt rev gt

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UPDATE 2 Since Git 2 5 0 the feature described below can be enabled on server side with configuration variable uploadpack allowReachableSHA1InWant  here the GitHub feature request and the GitHub commit enabling this feature  Note that some Git servers activate this option by default  e g   Bitbucket Server enabled it since version 5 5   See this answer on Stackexchange for a exmple of how to activate the configuration option  UPDATE 1 For Git versions 1 7  lt  v  lt  2 5 use git clone and git reset  as described in Vaibhav Bajpai s answer If you don t want to fetch the full repository then you probably shouldn t be using clone  You can always just use fetch to choose the branch that you want to fetch  I m not an hg expert so I don t know the details of -r but in git you can do something like this    make a new blank repository in the current directory git init    add a remote git remote add origin url   to source repository    fetch a commit  or branch or tag  of interest   Note  the full history up to this commit will be retrieved unless          you limit it with  --depth      or  --shallow-since      git fetch origin  lt sha1-of-commit-of-interest gt     reset this repository s master branch to the commit of interest git reset --hard FETCH HEAD

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clone special tag branch without history git clone  --branch  lt tag branch gt  --depth 1  lt repository gt      clone special revision with minimal histories git clone --branch  lt branch gt   lt repository gt  --shallow-since yyyy-MM-ddTHH mm ss    get the commit time cd  lt dir gt  git reset --hard  lt revision gt     you can t get a revision without histories if not set uploadpack allowReachableSHA1InWant true on server side  while you can create a tag for it and clone the special tag instead

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You Can use simply git checkout  lt commit hash gt   in this sequence   bash  git clone  URLTORepository  git checkout   commithash    commit hash looks like this  45ef55ac20ce2389c9180658fdba35f4a663d204

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