How to clone git repository with specific revision/changeset?

git git-clone revision
John picture John · Aug 15, 2010 · Viewed 504.1k times · Source

How can I clone git repository with specific revision, something like I usually do in Mercurial:

hg clone -r 3 /path/to/repository

Answer

Vaibhav Bajpai picture Vaibhav Bajpai · Dec 30, 2012 
$ git clone $URL
$ cd $PROJECT_NAME
$ git reset --hard $SHA1

To again go back to the most recent commit

$ git pull

Related questions

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
How do you clone a Git repository into a specific folder?

Executing the command git clone [email protected]:whatever creates a directory in my current folder named whatever, and drops the contents of the Git repository into that folder: /httpdocs/whatever/public My problem is that I need the contents …

Read More
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