How to clone a specific version of a git repository?

Question

I\'m working with symfony2 and I want to backup my vendors in case github is not reachable.

How do I clone a specific Version of a repository?

I want to back

Answer 1

You can't clone a repository specifying only a version number. You also can't clone a repository by specifying only a commit hash. (which is pretty much the same thing from Git's point of view)

Actually the only thing you can do is a shallow clone by specifying the depth (the number of commits you will pull): http://linux.die.net/man/1/git-clone

git clone --depth 1 would pull only the last commit.

Back to your question, if you fear that github is unreachable, you should host these projects on one of your server.