Download a specific tag with Git
git, git-clone, git-tag
Solution
$ git clone
will give you the whole repository.
After the clone, you can list the tags with `$ git tag -l` and then checkout a specific tag:
$ git checkout tags/<tag_name>
Even better, checkout and create a branch (otherwise you will be on a branch named after the revision number of tag):
$ git checkout tags/<tag_name> -b <branch_name>
Problem
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 object name of something long hex number. But the version name is "`Tagged release 1.1.5`" according the site. I tried a command like this (with names changed): ``` git clone http://git.abc.net/git/abc.git my_abc ``` And I did get something - a directory, a bunch of subdirectories, etc. If it's the whole repository, how do I get at the version I'm seeking? If not, how do I download that particular version?