git clone release

You can do this with the --branch flag, which will also accept a tag.

$ git clone  [email protected]:mygitname/theproject.git --branch 1.0.2
In most cases, you will just want to checkout the tag as described in Exprator's answer.

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                                    # One-liner to get link to the source archive of latest release

curl -s https://github.com/USER/REPO/releases | 
    grep -m1 -Eo &quot;archive/refs/tags/[^/]+\.tar\.gz&quot; | 
        xargs printf &quot;https://github.com/USER/REPO/%s&quot;

# Command to clone the source of latest release to the current folder 
# w/o downloading archive to local disk

ghRepoCloneLatestRelease ()
{
    [[ ${1} =~ / ]] &amp;&amp;
        wget -qO- https://github.com/${1}/$(curl -s https://github.com/${1}/releases |
            grep -m1 -Eo &quot;archive/refs/tags/[^/]+\.tar\.gz&quot;) |
                tar --strip-components=1 -xzv &gt;/dev/null
}

# Usage: ghRepoCloneLatestRelease user/repo

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