From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:13:05 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] (preview) Renaming push. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v3bpq8t2a.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > git-send-pack parent $(git-rev-parse HEAD^):master > > 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.. I like the scripting, and combining pipelines of commands kind of thing. I agree that you can just make a temporary tag, but it's a bit like in any scripting stuff - you could use a temp-file, but it's just cleaner if you can keep temporary values in local variables (or in a local cmd pipeline like the above). Whenever you script somethign that creates a new tag or ref, you suddenly have cleanup and uniqueness issues etc. Linus