Git pull till certain commit (tag)

Question

I have a clone of a remote repository. I updated its remote url to my own server. Then I did some commits and pushed them to my repository. Now I need to pull some changes from the initial repository. From a specific branch. I can do it by running

git pull http://example.com/repo.git example_branch

This will pull every new commit from example_branch (and actually I will get a dev version). But this example_branch has tags. And I need to stop pulling at a certain one (get a stable release in my case). How can I do that?

UPD Finally I came up with:

git remote add example http://example.com/repo.git
git fetch
git merge tag_name

Answer 1

git pullis just a git fetch followed by a git merge. So you can easily do a git fetch and then merge the desired commit / tag.

Answer 2

A git repository can supports multiple remote.

In your case, you need to add a second remote (with your old server):

git remote add old_server http://example.com/repo.git

Then you can simply fetch from it:

git fetch old_server

At last, merge the specific commit you want to grab into your project.