Ability to clone repos with the last commit before the deadline

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reading issue #15 and tracing the repository cloning flow in the gh-classroom CLI. Determine how a hard deadline and the latest commit are represented, then define the option behavior for checking out the last commit before the deadline or retaining the latest commit. Done means cloning can select either snapshot behavior consistently.

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Description

Recently classrooms updated too support a hard deadline so assignments can move to read-only post deadline.

If you don't want to enforce this, but still want a snapshot of the state of all repos just before the dealine, you must introspect the commits once cloned and checkout appropriately to that commit.

I want an option to checkout a single commit (#15) that is the last before the deadline, or another option to default to the latest commit.

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