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Re: How to pull remote branch with specified commit id?

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Jan 13, 2009, 09:43 UTC
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Emily Ren schrieb:
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> Git experts,
> 
> I want to pull remote branch with specified commit id, how to do it?
> 
> Below command can get remote branch
> $git pull remote refs/heads/$branch_name
> 
> Below command doesn't work
> $git pull remote objects/$commit_id
You can't, and that is so by design.

Consider this: You accidentally push a branch with confidential data to a public repository. You notice it early, and quickly delete the branch using 'git push the-repo :refs/heads/that-branch'. At this time the objects with the confidential data are still lingering in the public repository. But with the current behavior noone can access them even if the SHA1 happens to be known.

-- Hannes
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  1. Emily RenJan 13, 2009
  2. Andreas EricssonJan 13, 2009
  3. Emily RenJan 13, 2009
  4. Johannes SixtJan 13, 2009
  5. Brad KingJan 13, 2009
  6. thestar@fussycoder.id.auJan 14, 2009
  7. Johannes SixtJan 14, 2009
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