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

Andreas,

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

Emily

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] wrote:

Emily Ren wrote:

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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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