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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Allow transfer of any valid sha1
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:28:51 -0700
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> My basic argument is that starting a pull with a commit that is not a
>> reference is no worse than staring a pull from a broken repository.  The
>> same checks that protects us should work in either case.
>
> I think Junio reacted to the subject line, which was somewhat badly 
> phrased. You're not looking to transfer random objects, you're looking to 
> _start_ a branch at any arbitrary known point.

I realize that now.  From Eric's original message:

  To be accurate of his source Andrew records the sha1 of the commit
  and the git tree he pulled from.  Which looks like:

  GIT b307e8548921c686d2eb948ca418ab2941876daa \
   git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

  So I figured I would transform the above line into the obvious
  git-pull command:

   git-pull \
    git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git \
    b307e8548921c686d2eb948ca418ab2941876daa

With the limitation of the current tool, we could do:

  git-fetch master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git \
	refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/linus/master
  git merge 'whatever merge message' HEAD b307e854

assuming that b307e854 is reachable from your tip.  So it might
be just a matter of giving a convenient shorthand to do the
above two commands, instead of mucking with upload-pack.