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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pulling one commit at a time.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:11:35 +0200
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 18:48, Sanjiv Gupta<sanjiv.gupta@microchip.com> wrote:
> when I first cloned from the public repo, it was at X. now it has reached Y.
> I just want to pull x+1.
>
> how to do that?

Depending on what you mean, it maybe either the what Git already
does (a git fetch/git pull always transmits only the differences) or a
security risk and impossible (an ability to fetch an arbitrary commit
bypasses checks imposed by the reference names published).