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this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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degitis a tool that will check out a git repo (or a specific branch or commit), but not set it up as a git repo. Basically just downloading a specific commit to a directory.So just clone a git and delete the .git folder? Seems pretty useless to me.
If you want to waste bandwidth downloading the entire commit history, go ahead.
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--depth=1? I use this all the time when I clone the kernel.~~Edit: reread that you wanted to download code at a particular commit.
--single-branchCan single-branch handle cloning from a particular commit? I know that it's possible to clone particular branches and particular tags with depth=1, but OP states cloning at a particular commit, not HEAD.