From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:16:19 GMT
Subject: Re: How to pull remote branch with specified commit id?
Message-ID: <496C5BE3.2040206@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <856bfe0e0901130108q3af1345cy31751dd09e030c96@mail.gmail.com>

Emily Ren wrote:
> Git experts,
> 
> I want to pull remote branch with specified commit id, how to do it?
> 
> Below command can get remote branch
> $git pull remote refs/heads/$branch_name
> 
> Below command doesn't work
> $git pull remote objects/$commit_id
> 

You need to fetch it first, and then merge the commit you want. The
tools operating the fetching protocol only use refs, so if you want
to fetch (or pull) a specific version that has neither a tag nor a
branch head pointing to it, you'll have to write a new tool for that.

The end-result of the following command will be, barring side-effects
in the remote-tracking branches, identical to what you're trying to
do though:
git fetch remote && git merge $commit_id

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