Retrieve specific commit from a remote Git repository

Question

Is there any way to retrieve only one specific commit from a remote Git repo without cloning it on my PC? The structure of remote repo is absolutely same as that of mine and

Answer 1

You can simply fetch the remote repo with:

git fetch 

where,

• can be a remote repo name (e.g. origin) or even a remote repo URL (e.g. https://git.foo.com/myrepo.git)

for example:

git fetch https://git.foo.com/myrepo.git 

after you fetched the repos you may merge the commits that you want (since the question is about retrieve one commit, instead merge you may use cherry-pick to pick just one commit):

git merge 

• can be the SHA1 commit

for example:

git cherry-pick 0a071603d87e0b89738599c160583a19a6d95545

or

git merge 0a071603d87e0b89738599c160583a19a6d95545

if is the latest commit that you want to merge, you also may use FETCH_HEAD variable :

git cherry-pick (or merge) FETCH_HEAD