From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:37:19 GMT
Subject: Fetch by SHA missing
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010052136280.21719@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

Hi,


it is possible to select single heads/tags for download, but this does 
not work with SHA IDs as of 1.7.1.

$ git fetch linus 3c06806e690885ce978ef180c8f8b6f8c17fb4b4:x
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref 3c06806e690885ce978ef180c8f8b6f8c17fb4b4
$ git fetch linus refs/heads/master
remote: Counting objects: 1254, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (234/234), done.
remote: Total 709 (delta 562), reused 602 (delta 475)
Receiving objects: 100% (709/709), 112.41 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (562/562), completed with 212 local objects.
From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD