Comments on: Getting just the tip of a Git repo http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/03/13/getting-just-the-tip-of-a-git-repo mah-soo-koh-me Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:37:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Franz http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/03/13/getting-just-the-tip-of-a-git-repo/comment-page-1#comment-1472 Franz Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:47:50 +0000 http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/03/13/getting-just-the-tip-of-a-git-repo#comment-1472 Hey, is there any way to just get a certain tag of a repository like that (best would be from a remote repository)? Hey, is there any way to just get a certain tag of a repository like that (best would be from a remote repository)?

]]> By: Jakub Narebski http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/03/13/getting-just-the-tip-of-a-git-repo/comment-page-1#comment-35 Jakub Narebski Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:13:22 +0000 http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/03/13/getting-just-the-tip-of-a-git-repo#comment-35 By the way, if the repository administrator has enabled it, you can get archive of remote repository by providing '--remote=' option to git-archive. For example: git archive --remote=git://repo.or.cz/git.git HEAD > git.tar Actually it is possible to _clone_ repository without all the history by using so called "shallow clone", i.e. by calling git-clone (or git-fetch) with '--depth ' option. Note that if I remember correctly you cannot push from such a shallow clone to other non-shallow repository. By the way, if the repository administrator has enabled it, you can get archive of remote repository by providing ‘–remote=’ option to git-archive. For example:
git archive –remote=git://repo.or.cz/git.git HEAD > git.tar

Actually it is possible to _clone_ repository without all the history by using so called “shallow clone”, i.e. by calling git-clone (or git-fetch) with ‘–depth ‘ option. Note that if I remember correctly you cannot push from such a shallow clone to other non-shallow repository.

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