From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:40:28 GMT Subject: Re: [Survey] Signed push Message-ID: <7vwrdasvr7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4E7101F3.1090204@mit.edu> Andy Lutomirski writes: >> An alternative that I am considering is to let the requester say this >> instead: >> >> are available in the git repository at: >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/flobar.git/ 5738c9c21e53356ab5020912116e7f82fd2d428f >> >> without adding the extra line. >> >> That is, to allow fetching the history up to an explicitly named commit >> object. This would only involve a change to fetch-pack at the receiving >> end; just match the commit object name given from the command line against >> the ls-remote response and ask upload-pack to give the history leading to >> it.... > > I would love this feature on the pull/fetch interface, but for a > completely different reason. Sometimes I want to pull a particular > object (usually a commit, but sometimes just a tree or blob) from > *myself*, and having to stick it on a branch is annoying. I am afraind that it is not going to happen; see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181317 for a rationale.