How to convert a Git shallow clone to a full clone?

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Follow-up of this so-question: if I have a shallow clone, how to fetch all older commits to make it a full clone?

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Two ways to achieve Shallow Clone to Deep Clone. :

  1. Used the following steps to download the branch: (This downloads the shallow copy of the branch and then converts it into a Full Clone i.e bring complete branch and its history).

    a. git clone -b branch http://git.repository/customSP01.git --depth 1

This does a shallow clone (with the depth-option) only fetches only one single branch (at your requested depth).

b. cd customSP01
c. git fetch -depth=100
d. get fetch -depth=500
....
e. git fetch --unshallow

//The above command will convert the shallow clone to regular one. However, this doesn’t bring all the branches:

Then, to get access to all the branches.

f. git remote set-branches origin '*'

[This Step can also be done manually by editing following line in .git/config.

fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

to (replace master with *):

fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* ]

g. git fetch -v

This converts the Shallow Clone into Deep Clone with all the History and Branch details.

  1. You can avoid steps f and g, if you use the below instead of command present in step a. to do the shallow clone:

    git clone -b branch --no-single-branch http://git.repository/customSP01.git --depth 1

user_25653460

None of the above messages did the trick. I'm trying to work with git tags starting from a shallow clone.

First I tried

git fetch --update-shallow

which kind of worked half-way through. Yet, no tags available!

git fetch --depth=1000000

This last command really fetched the tags and I could finally execute

git checkout -b master-v1.1.0 tags/v1.1.0

and be done with it.

HTH

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