Git: get a particular revision of a git repository with depth 1

Question

How do I obtain a single revision from a git repository without cloning the whole repository ?

Note : this question has been asked 100s of times but I have yet to see an answer that solves it since they all start with "clone the whole git repository". This cannot be done in my use case.

The best I can do is:

1. Find the depth of the commit.
2. Clone until that depth: git clone --depth $depth $git_repo_url .
3. Checkout and reset: git checkout $commit_hash; git reset --hard git checkout $commit_hash; git reset --hard .

But this still requires cloning up to the commits depth.

Is there a way to avoid that and clone only a particular commit with depth 1?

Answer 1

Not with clone but with pull / fetch . See this post:

1. How to clone git repository with specific revision/changeset?

2. Retrieve specific commit from a remote Git repository

    git init git fetch --depth 1 url://to/source/repository <sha1-of-commit> 

And set uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant on the server side.

Answer 2

如果您进行reflog和git cherry-pick怎么样