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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> 	git-send-pack parent $(git-rev-parse HEAD^):master
>
> and there's no real reason why that syntax shouldn't just work: it's 
> entirely logical to say "I want to push out the parent of my HEAD as 
> 'master' on the other end", and that's _exactly_ what the above says.

Yes I think allowing get_sha()-able thing on the left hand side
makes things, well, interesting.  I need to think about it a bit.

When I do something like your example, I create a temporary
lightweight tag and push it.  Snapshots in JIT are just a bunch
of lightweight tags so..