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Re: Git'ing a non-labeled set of sources

From
PBPeter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 8, 2007, 19:37 UTC
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<20070808193720.GD27470@xp.machine.xx>
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:59:38PM -0500, Sparks, Sam wrote:
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> Hello All,
> 
> Please excuse me if this is an ignorant question; I'm new to git and my
> have overlooked something in the documentation.
> 
> I'm attempting to obtain a snapshot of source code from an unlabeled git
> branch in a public repository. I've found in the documentation that a
> timestamp cannot be used to specify a particular version of source code,
> but I believe I can work with the commit value as returned by 'git
> show'.
> 
> However, I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to use this identifier
> to clone or checkout the associated source tree. Has anyone been
> successful in using git to successfully replicate an unlabeled version
> of sources in a repository?
> 
> Here is my latest attempt:
> /dir_i_want_to_replicate $ git show --pretty=short
> commit 5b1313fb2758ffce8b624457f777d8cc6709608d
> Author: ....
> 
> /replication_dir $ git clone git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git
> u-boot-mpc83xx
> Blah blah blah..
>  100% (4378/4378) done
> /replication_dir/u-boot-mpc83xx/ $ git checkout
> 5b1313fb2758ffce8b624457f777d8cc6709608d
> error: pathspec '5b1313fb2758ffce8b624457f777d8cc6709608d' did not match
> any. 
> 

Because there is no 5b1313fb2758ffce8b624457f777d8cc6709608d in the repo.

  $ git clone git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git
  Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/u-boot/.git/
  remote: Generating pack...
  remote: Done counting 40938 objects.
  remote: Deltifying 40938 objects.
  remote:  100% (40938/40938) done
  Indexing 40938 objects...
  remote: Total 40938 (delta 32545), reused 39302 (delta 31040)
  100% (40938/40938) done
  Resolving 32545 deltas...
  100% (32545/32545) done
  $ cd u-boot; git-rev-list --all|grep ^5b1
  5b1d713721c3ea02549940133f09236783dda1f9
-Peter
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