How to git clone a specific tag

git git-clone git-tag
Jiang Jun picture Jiang Jun · Nov 29, 2013 · Viewed 251.4k times · Source

From git-clone(1) Manual Page

--branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in the resulting repository.

I tried 

git clone --branch <tag_name> <repo_url>

But it does not work. It returns: 

warning: Remote branch 2.13.0 not found in upstream origin, using HEAD instead

How to use this parameter?

Answer

Erik Saunier picture Erik Saunier · Feb 11, 2014 
git clone --depth 1 --branch <tag_name> <repo_url>

--depth 1 is optional but if you only need the state at that one revision, you probably want to skip downloading all the history up to that revision.

Related questions

Download a specific tag with Git

I'm trying to figure out how I can download a particular tag of a Git repository - it's one version behind the current version. I saw there was a tag for the previous version on the git web page, with …

Read More
Cloning a repo without tags?

I want to create bare git project without tags using clone.But through Google came to know that there is no option like "--no-tags". Is there any way to clone without tags like below? $ git clone {path}/test.git --no-tags …

Read More
How do I clone a specific Git branch?

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?

Read More