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Re: fetching a single commit from remote repo

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 10, 2008, 16:45 UTC
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Hi,
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
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> I'm looking for a way to fetch a single snapshot, without history, from
> remote git repository.
> 
> I've found how to do it with a head (clone --depth 1, or fetch --depth 1).
> 
> Is it possible to do the same with non-head and non-tagged commit, if only
> sha1 name of the commit is known?
> Looks like fetch and fetch-pack only take ref names :(

Yes, for security reasons. If you pushed some code you were not allowed to push, you have to have a way to undo the error by force-rewinding.

Ciao, Dscho

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