Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> 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.
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