Am 10/5/2010 21:37, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > Hi, > > > it is possible to select single heads/tags for download, but this does > not work with SHA IDs as of 1.7.1. > > $ git fetch linus 3c06806e690885ce978ef180c8f8b6f8c17fb4b4:x > fatal: Couldn't find remote ref 3c06806e690885ce978ef180c8f8b6f8c17fb4b4 > $ git fetch linus refs/heads/master > remote: Counting objects: 1254, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (234/234), done. > remote: Total 709 (delta 562), reused 602 (delta 475) > Receiving objects: 100% (709/709), 112.41 KiB, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (562/562), completed with 212 local objects. > From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 > * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD That's by design: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/73368/focus=73994 That is, when you accidentally push secret data, you can rewind your refs on the server. Even though the objects still live on the server (until they are garbage-collected) nobody will be able to fetch your secret stuff even if they happen to know the SHA1. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html