Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> 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.
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