From: Alex Riesen Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:11:35 GMT Subject: Re: Pulling one commit at a time. Message-ID: <81b0412b0908231311w483d737bncf8d4604cf7490db@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A9172D0.6030507@microchip.com> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 18:48, Sanjiv Gupta wrote: > when I first cloned from the public repo, it was at X. now it has reached Y. > I just want to pull x+1. > > how to do that? Depending on what you mean, it maybe either the what Git already does (a git fetch/git pull always transmits only the differences) or a security risk and impossible (an ability to fetch an arbitrary commit bypasses checks imposed by the reference names published).