From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [Survey] Signed push Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:40:28 -0700 Message-ID: <7vwrdasvr7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vaaa8xufi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4E7101F3.1090204@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andy Lutomirski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 14 22:40:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R3wG4-0007WX-DY for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:40:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933291Ab1INUkc (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:40:32 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:43803 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933235Ab1INUkb (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:40:31 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7E4499D; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:40:30 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=ywcM/Et7xEWDysgpEN/1JsMT2N4=; b=lKPqEQ UGh1q4t3Co39P5YMtktFCQNz77GB44zn3s2aUZrdCv74nVjqORCOV/XiVhISKP+O pVOV17wx/S+i33+5OO5LLClek0KQmXzN2Ez7fD1gmqVbw2FnB2XCLjXI6gceW3MK hZEd6lL0f6vcLLpnIXzjnQU8CwAJeF0VCumOg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=BzGvoVeOFyzzRM6mFAJrNKvosqIarug0 qD4JkcW9z5BjZNMJPXE4pEj2WqDZhPYZ4m4GHla7b40MjZrDu4tSo7NRMtlP8Pt9 4ao6BJeXhXbpa0DI5v+8JRdEqhSa7/7+ecCWOwSpIg3OP1PFZ2VpkV4aQxBH8Ovq upmrYjgk3yQ= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5830499C; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:40:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3549B4996; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:40:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4E7101F3.1090204@mit.edu> (Andy Lutomirski's message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:35:15 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C9173BAC-DF11-11E0-9B1C-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andy Lutomirski writes: >> An alternative that I am considering is to let the requester say this >> instead: >> >> are available in the git repository at: >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/flobar.git/ 5738c9c21e53356ab5020912116e7f82fd2d428f >> >> without adding the extra line. >> >> That is, to allow fetching the history up to an explicitly named commit >> object. This would only involve a change to fetch-pack at the receiving >> end; just match the commit object name given from the command line against >> the ls-remote response and ask upload-pack to give the history leading to >> it.... > > I would love this feature on the pull/fetch interface, but for a > completely different reason. Sometimes I want to pull a particular > object (usually a commit, but sometimes just a tree or blob) from > *myself*, and having to stick it on a branch is annoying. I am afraind that it is not going to happen; see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181317 for a rationale.