What is git equivalent of the following cvs command

Question

we are moving from cvs to git. I want to know what the following cvs commands does and its output

cvs -n checkout -p -r${RELEASE} ${MODULE}

I also need git equivalent of following cvs command.

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

In a nutshell:

   git clone url

will give you the whole repository. If then you need to checkout a specific tagged release, you can do

 git checkout tags/<tag_name>

Even better, you can checkout and create a branch

  git checkout tags/<tag_name> -b <branch name>

If you only need to clone locally a specific release, try:

     git clone --branch <tag_name> <repo_url>