How can I clone a specific release in Git?

Question

Well, I saw someone talking about cloning a Git release, but I didn't understand it, and I followed the tutorial given by them.

How can I Git clone a specific release?

This is the tutorial command given by them.

git clone  [email protected]:mygitname/theproject.git --branch 1.0.2

Here are some commands that I have tried.

git clone  [email protected]:discordjs/discord.js --branch 13.2.0

Cloning into 'discord.js'...
error: cannot run ssh: No such file or directory
fatal: unable to fork

git clone https://github.com/discordjs/discord.js/releases/tag/13.2.0

Cloning into '13.2.0'...
fatal: https://github.com/discordjs/discord.js/releases/tag/13.2.0/info/refs not valid: could not determine hash algorithm; is this a git repository?

git clone discordjs/discord.js --branch 13.2.0

fatal: repository 'discordjs/discord.js' does not exist

But nothing really worked. How can I fix it?

Answer 1

The issue is with the Git remote URL that you're trying with.

Try with the below and it would clone the particular release

git clone https://github.com/discordjs/discord.js.git --branch 13.2.0

The reasons why the ones you are trying with are not working:

// The remote URL is an SSH URL and you probably don't have the SSH software installed
git clone [email protected]:discordjs/discord.js --branch 13.2.0

// Not valid Git remote URLs
git clone https://github.com/discordjs/discord.js/releases/tag/13.2.0
git clone discordjs/discord.js --branch 13.2.0