From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:01:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Message-ID: <20080911230117.GA4194@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080911225648.GC29559@cuci.nl>

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:56:48AM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

> Well, the usual way to fix this is to actually startup fetch and tell it
> to try and fetch all the weak links (or just fetch a single hash (the
> offending origin link)) from upstream; this is by no means the default
> operatingmode of fetch, but I don't see any harm in allowing to fetch
> those if one really wants to.

Maybe I am misremembering the details of fetching, but I believe you
cannot fetch an arbitrary SHA-1, and that is by design. So:

  1. You would have to argue the merits of changing that design. I
     believe the rationale relates to exposing some subset of the
     content via refs, but I have personally never felt that is very
     compelling.

  2. Even if we did make a change, that means that _both_ sides need the
     upgraded version.

-Peff