git-clone

I cloned a remote git repository about a month ago. The remote repository has undergone many changes and has now become unstable. Now I need another copy of the repository, version identical to the one I cloned a month ago. How do I do this? You could "reset" your repository to any commit you want (e.g. 1 month ago). Use git-reset for that: git clone [remote_address_here] my_repo cd my_repo git reset --hard [ENTER HERE THE COMMIT HASH YOU WANT] M.Othman You Can use simply git checkout commithash in this sequence git init git clone `URLTORepository` cd `into your cloned folder` git checkout

I'm doing: git clone ssh://user@host.com/home/user/private/repos/project_hub.git ./ I'm getting: Fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory. I know path . already exists. And I can assure that directory IS empty. (I do ls inside and I see nothing!) What am I missing here in order to clone that project into the current directory ? Roshan Pal simply put a dot next to it git clone git@github.com:user/my-project.git . From git help clone : Cloning into an existing directory is only allowed if the directory is empty. So make sure the directory is empty (check with ls

In light of a recent question on SO , I am wondering why isn't there an option in git clone such that the HEAD pointer of the newly created branch will point to a specified commit? In say question above, OP is trying to provide instructions on the specific commit his users should clone. Note that this question is not about How To Clone To A Particular Version using reset ; but about why isn't there ? Two answers so far (at the time I wrote this, now there are more) are correct in what they say, but don't really answer the "why" question. Of course, the "why" question is really hard to answer,

Background (for tl;dr, see #questions below) I have multiple git repository shallow clones. I'm using shallow clones because it's a lot smaller compared to a deep clone. Each is cloned doing about git clone --single-branch --depth 1 <git-repo-url> <dir-name> . This works fine, except I don't see how to update it. When I'm cloning by a tag, update is not meaningful, as a tag is frozen point in time (as I understand it). In this case, if I want to update, this means I want to clone by another tag, so I just rm -rf <dir-name> and clone again. Things get more complicated when I’ve cloned the HEAD

Possible Duplicate: How to do a “git export” (like “svn export”) Is there a flag to pass to git when doing a clone, say don't clone the .git directory? If not, how about a flag to delete the .git directory after the clone? Adam Dymitruk Use git clone --depth=1 --branch=master git://someserver/somerepo dirformynewrepo rm -rf ./dirformynewrepo/.git The depth option will make sure to copy the least bit of history possible to get that repo. The branch option is optional and if not specified would get master. The second line will make your directory dirformynewrepo not a Git repository any more. If