How do I download CakePHP 1.3 from the CakePHP GitHub repository?

Question

I am working on a legacy CakePHP 1.3 project and would like to follow the standard blog tutorial.

The tutorial says this is possible in 2 ways:

a) To download via http://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/downloads, however when visiting this link there are no packages to download anything.

b) It suggests that it is possible to download via the command line using git clone git://github.com/cakephp/cakephp.git, however this appears to download the latest version (at this stage 2.0+)

I have located what appears to be CakePHP 1.3 at this address https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/tree/1.3, but I am not sure how to download these all in one go with git options.

Answer 1

You can either download one of the tagged zips, or simply checkout the 1.3 branch after cloning the repository from Git bash:

git clone http://github.com/cakephp/cakephp
git checkout 1.3

That way you get the 1.3 branch and can use those files. If you ever want to get back to the master branch, simply checkout that branch:

git checkout master