[ot] checking out a git tag and only the tag

[Kevin Foote]

I think you have to make a local branch which grabs the origin/tag first.

git co -b localbranch remotetag 



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thanks
 kevin.foote

On Jan 17, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Tom Zeller <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

> If I clone spring-framework, then 'git checkout tags/v3.2.6.RELEASE'
> or 'git checkout v3.2.6.RELEASE', then the spring-beans-groovy
> directory still exists, even though it does not exist in the tag,
> AFAICT, according to github.
> 
> Just wondering what I need to type to checkout the tag and only the tag.
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