From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:12:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Pushing and fetching sha1s directly
Message-ID: <7vlk7mwchm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071222211308.GA27281@pvv.org>

Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org> writes:

> Currently there seems to be no way of pusing a sha1 directly, or to
> fetch a sha1 directly. When working with submodules, it is convenient
> to be able to work with detached HEADs, so it would be good if this
> could be supported also by fetch and push.

At least push of an arbitrary commit is already supported, I
think.

For fetch, I would normally say "check the list archives", but
it was very long time ago that it was proposed and discussed.
It has some security and performance implications.