Re: Remote git-cat-file?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 28, 2006, 00:32 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605271729440.5623@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605271727110.5623@g5.osdl.org>

On Sat, 27 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> 
> Well, depending on just how much you know about the object, you can fake 
> it. For example, if you already know it's a commit, and you know the 
> parents, then yes, you can download it by basically saying that you want 
> that particular object and you already have the parents.

The other (similar) case is for tag objects. When you do "git ls-remote" on the remote repo, it will tell you both the tag object SHA and the object SHA of the thing it points to, so you can then do a git protocol exchange where you do a

	for_each_tag
		"want <tagsha1>"

	for_each_tag
		"have <objectitpointstosha1>"

and you'll get just the tag object back.

		Linus