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I want to get the OpenCV2.4.2 source files for windows in order to generate the libraries myself. I run the command 

git clone git://code.opencv.org/opencv.git

This actually gets the 2.4.9 repository which I don't want. There is a GIT option

git reset --hard <commit code>

that is supposed to get back to the desired commit. The thing is that I found that there are way too many commits and I don't know which one is the version 2.4.2!

  • How can I download version 2.4.2 from GIT?
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  • check this http://stackoverflow.com/a/1655666/1225337 – Nikson Kanti Paul Sep 13 '12 at 08:14
  • very interesting. But still there is the problem on how to know which id corresponds to version 2.4.2 – Jav_Rock Sep 13 '12 at 08:17
  • @Jav_Rock try to issue `git tag` to get tag name of version, then issue `git checkout tagname` – om-nom-nom Sep 13 '12 at 08:18
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    Great news to hear OpenCV migrated from SVN to git! Every time when a branch was created in SVN, it took me almost one day to run `git svn fetch` and slowed down my PC! With git, this will no longer be a problem of slow fetch. – linquize Sep 13 '12 at 09:37
  • @linquize If opencv has migrated to **Git**, then we all should migrate to **Git**! – Jav_Rock Sep 13 '12 at 11:25

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Just look for the tags using:

git tag

Look for OpenCV 2.4.2, or whatever you want, and then checkout with your election:

git checkout 2.4.2

in your case.

If you want to pull the latest 2.4 branch, then you can do:

git clone -b 2.4 --single-branch https://github.com/Itseez/opencv.git Opencv-2.4
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