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fetching a single commit from remote repo

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NYNikita V. Youshchenko <yoush@debian.org>
Date
Feb 10, 2008, 15:00 UTC
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<1530970.y9vPlhFxz8@yoush.homelinux.org>
Hello.

I'm looking for a way to fetch a single snapshot, without history, from remote git repository.

I've found how to do it with a head (clone --depth 1, or fetch --depth 1).

Is it possible to do the same with non-head and non-tagged commit, if only sha1 name of the commit is known? Looks like fetch and fetch-pack only take ref names :(

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