From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 18:36:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Allow transfer of any valid sha1
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605251134410.5623@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3beyuffg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Thu, 25 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> With the limitation of the current tool, we could do:
> 
>   git-fetch master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git \
> 	refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/linus/master
>   git merge 'whatever merge message' HEAD b307e854
> 
> assuming that b307e854 is reachable from your tip.  So it might
> be just a matter of giving a convenient shorthand to do the
> above two commands, instead of mucking with upload-pack.

It's not upload-pack that needs mucking with. It's simply "fetch-pack" 
that currently will refuse to say "want b307e854..", because the only 
thing it can do is say "want <headref>".

So the patch would literally be to have a way to tell fetch-pack directly 
what you want, and not have the "only select from remote branches" logic.

		Linus