Re: How to pull remote branch with specified commit id?

["Emily Ren" <lingyan.ren@gmail.com>]

Andreas,

I tried your method, it works. Thank you very much !

Emily

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> Emily Ren wrote:
>>
>> Git experts,
>>
>> I want to pull remote branch with specified commit id, how to do it?
>>
>> Below command can get remote branch
>> $git pull remote refs/heads/$branch_name
>>
>> Below command doesn't work
>> $git pull remote objects/$commit_id
>>
>
> You need to fetch it first, and then merge the commit you want. The
> tools operating the fetching protocol only use refs, so if you want
> to fetch (or pull) a specific version that has neither a tag nor a
> branch head pointing to it, you'll have to write a new tool for that.
>
> The end-result of the following command will be, barring side-effects
> in the remote-tracking branches, identical to what you're trying to
> do though:
> git fetch remote && git merge $commit_id
>
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