From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:04:53 GMT Subject: Re: Pushing and fetching sha1s directly Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vlk7mwchm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi, On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Finn Arne Gangstad writes: > > > Currently there seems to be no way of pusing a sha1 directly, or to > > fetch a sha1 directly. When working with submodules, it is convenient > > to be able to work with detached HEADs, so it would be good if this > > could be supported also by fetch and push. > > For fetch, I would normally say "check the list archives", but it was > very long time ago that it was proposed and discussed. It has some > security and performance implications. To enhance on that: sometimes you need to delete a branch in a hurry, because you publicised some secret code/file. In that case, you do _not_ want people being able to fetch arbitrary commits. Ciao, Dscho