

#Git checkout tag without clone update
We also use a -depth=1 so it takes less space on tmp dirs. In order to checkout the latest Git tag, first update your repository by fetching the remote tags available. git directory contents will end up in a tmp dir. But I am not able to find the rest of the branch.
git clone -filterblob:none -no-checkout -depth 1 -sparsegit file (not a directory) whose content will be a single line: gitdir: īecause we used a tmp dir with the mktemp command, the actual. I tried to do a sparse checkout a specific directory in a repo and I am able to do it using the below commands. The -separate-git-dir flag lets you specify a path for the. Git clone -separate-git-dir=$(mktemp -u) -depth=1 $dir & rm $dir/.git
In zsh, I made that a function so I ensure a dir value is defined: alias np='node-project' Windows Git Checkout Tag To find the tag name and checkout a Git tag, follow the steps below: 1. It has a dependency on mktemp command so it'll work *nix systems (from what I see this needs further work for the mktemp to work on MacOS, so if anyone wants to comment a working solution I'll add it) git file, which means it could never accidentally rm -rf a wrong. I like this solution more because I don't like rm -rfing things automatically. Git clone -separate-git-dir=$(mktemp -u) -depth=1 & rm /.git
