From: Konstantin Khomoutov Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:47:48 GMT Subject: Re: does the clone I do have the commits within them . Message-ID: <20110201174748.a450b30b.kostix@domain007.com> In-Reply-To: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:50:39 +0530 Vaishali wrote: > hi , I am have cloned the > git://gitorious.org/~dbeck/hawkboard/dbeck-hawkboard-linux-omapl1.git > found at > http://gitorious.org/~dbeck/hawkboard/dbeck-hawkboard-linux-omapl1... > Now I see there is a tab called Commit log ...The git that I have > cloned , would it include the commits in totality or will I have to > do somethng diferent to get the commits into the git that I cloned on > my PC. git checkout -f master git pull ... Is this .? Thanks If I got it right, the question is "does cloning a repository bring all the data or just changelogs?". In this case the answer is "yes, it brings all the data". That is, you can check out any commit in the history record of any branch fetched by git-clone. As usually, starting from a good book on Git it recommended, see http://git-scm.com/documentation