From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:05:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] (preview) Renaming push. Message-ID: <7v3bpq8t2a.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > git-send-pack parent $(git-rev-parse HEAD^):master > > and there's no real reason why that syntax shouldn't just work: it's > entirely logical to say "I want to push out the parent of my HEAD as > 'master' on the other end", and that's _exactly_ what the above says. Yes I think allowing get_sha()-able thing on the left hand side makes things, well, interesting. I need to think about it a bit. When I do something like your example, I create a temporary lightweight tag and push it. Snapshots in JIT are just a bunch of lightweight tags so..