From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:25:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Referring a commit-id remote repo.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710011122500.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071001041635.GA22102@old.davidb.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, David Brown wrote:

> The question I have: is there any way I can look at this particular 
> commit ID on the remote repo?  I couldn't come up with any way to get 
> git fetch to retrieve it.

Unless you have push access, no.  And this is very much by design.  For 
example, when somebody mistakenly pushed a secret (like what lines in the 
kernel infringe on M$ patents, if any) it should be possible to rebase (in 
a hurry), force a push, and have the safe feeling that nobody can fetch 
the secret any longer.

Ciao,
Dscho