How to download a specific version of ASP.NET MVC 5 source code

Question

I\'m looking for ASP.NET MVC 5.0 RTM source code. I\'ve tried to download this from http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/ but it seems to have only the most recent version 5.1.1 R

Answer 1

In general way, if you have already cloned the repository. You can use the Git commands:

git show-ref --tags

Your will see something like:

89b9166ca72279fcb62bff67c6224993371ed765 refs/tags/v2.0
a1b7c04f72277e6dfc459d8d6948260d26ccc6c9 refs/tags/v2.0-rc
d4dab6e6c0b181ee56593a3a514faab7f407e1f2 refs/tags/v2.0.1
f276aa28c436c598e3c2a8e09d052e2b17630ab0 refs/tags/v2.0.2
75b5e7ea58d2a120242ff0d840600e33e9b65882 refs/tags/v2.0.3
26665357e13c050d298310e0f5c7925af32a66cd refs/tags/v2.0.4
1b78397f32fc13ea321647b5039755df4be58558 refs/tags/v2.1
235544cf12a25d2fd072c1eafec4c681c9d6068e refs/tags/v2.1-beta
f079d76e57b557d0215dbbaf5d398f64a74ebf90 refs/tags/v2.1-rc
39391d3a64d71ae735f7620ae082aea5f05cb0e0 refs/tags/v3.0
...

or

git tag -n

And all tags with their comments will be promped:

fbv1.0          Microsoft.AspNet.Facebook v1.0
fbv1.1          Upgrade ODataLib version from 6.7.0 to 6.8.0
fbv1.1-beta     Microsoft.AspNet.Facebook 1.1.0 Beta
odata-v5.3      Update Microsoft.AspNet.Facebook version.
v2.0            Added copyright statements to files lacking it.
...

Select the version to download by the tag, and executed the git rev-parse command to get the id of the commit: For example:

> git rev-parse --short=12 v3.2.3
> 0e974218e12a                   //This is the first 12 characters of SHA commit.

With the first 12 characters of the SHA of the commit you can now build the url. For example:

Version 3.2.2 = https://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/66298100f4e3 Version 3.2.3 = https://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/0e974218e12a ...

or just call git checkout command:

git checkout v3.2.3