Jeff King wrote: > But I think Christian is arguing that the client side should complain > that $sha1 is not a remote ref, and therefore not something we can > fetch. This used to be the behavior until 6e7b66e (fetch: fetch objects > by their exact SHA-1 object names, 2013-01-29). The idea there is that > some refs may be kept "hidden" from the ref advertisement, but clients > who learn about the sha1 out-of-band may fetch the tips of hidden refs. > > I'm not sure it is a feature that has been particularly well-used to > date, though. I use it pretty often. The commits I'm fetching are pointed to directly by refs, but I don't care about what the ref is called and I want exactly that commit. The context is that the commit is mentioned in the gerrit web UI. Fetching by commit name feels simpler than getting the refs/changes/something ref, since I think in terms of commits instead of in terms of change numbers. Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan -- 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