From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 18:54:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: always allow fetching of literal SHA1s
Message-ID: <20170510185412.GB28740@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <2839966.sklLQJ8GHA@mfick1-lnx>

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:48:37PM -0600, Martin Fick wrote:
>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

>>> Just a side question, what are the people who use this
>>> feature using it for? The only thing I can think of
>>> myself is some out of band ref advertisement because
>>> you've got squillions of refs as a hack around git's
>>> limitations in that area.
[...]
> Perhaps another use case is submodules and repo(android
> tool) subprojects since they can be "pinned" to sha1s,

Yes, thanks for mentioning that.  We've talked a little about making
'git fetch --recurse-submodules' use this feature, either always, or
if after the usual fetch the desired commit is not available in the
submodule.

Jonathan