From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:39:02 GMT
Subject: Re: clone (single) commit id?
Message-ID: <20230817213902.GA3036503@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CABtpZSFT2BLJpeDwizZiXB8+tRRLqz+iAFuWaXAiwH_EgS5gag@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 10:20:20PM +0200, Patrik Hägglund wrote:

> As said, I want to use a commit id for reproducability and
> performance. The CI flow starts several jobs, all using the same
> commit id. A remote branch may be updated, and therefore considered
> not good (reproducible) enough as the reference here.

Oh, sorry, I didn't realize that was the sticking point. No, sadly I
don't think there is any way to feed a direct oid to clone currently.
Clone does know how to end up on a detached HEAD (e.g., if you specify a
tag with "--branch"). IMHO that would be a useful feature to learn, but
I think most folks resort to init+fetch, since it's most often useful in
scripted situations (like CI) anyway.

-Peff