git-clone

I am a complete Noob when it comes to GIT. I have been just taking my first steps over the last few days. I setup a repo on my laptop, pulled down the Trunk from an SVN project (had some issues with branches, not got them working), but all seems ok there. I now want to be able to pull or push from the laptop to my main desktop. The reason being the laptop is handy on the train as I spend 2 hours a day travelling and can get some good work done. But my main machine at home is great for development. So I want to be able to push / pull from the laptop to the main computer when I get home. I

Problem How do you create a shallow copy with git-svn from a Subversion repository, e.g. how do you pull only the last three revisions? The git clone command can get the last n revisions from a Git repository if you use the option --depth , i.e. you get a shallow copy of the repository. Example: git clone --depth 3 git://some/repo myshallowcopyrepo Is there a similar option for git-svn? My discoveries so far So far I've only found the -rN option where N is the revision to pull. Example: git svn clone -rN svn://some/repo According to the documentation there is the possibility to use -r

This question already has an answer here: How do I clone a single branch in Git? 15 answers Git clone will behave copying remote current working branch into local. Is there any way to clone a specific branch by myself without switching branches on the remote repository? Michael Krelin - hacker git clone --single-branch --branch <branchname> <remote-repo> The --single-branch option is valid from version 1.7.10 and later. Please see also the other answer which many people prefer. You may also want to make sure you understand the difference. And the difference is: by invoking git clone --branch

How can I clone git repository with specific revision, something like I usually do in Mercurial: hg clone -r 3 /path/to/repository CB Bailey UPDATE 2 Since Git 2.5.0 the feature described below can be enabled on server side with configuration variable uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant , here the GitHub feature request and the GitHub commit enabling this feature . Note that some Git servers activate this option by default, e.g. Bitbucket Server enabled it since version 5.5+ . See this answer on Stackexchange for a exmple of how to activate the configuration option. UPDATE 1 For Git versions 1