Re: Referring a commit-id remote repo.

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:25:13AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, David Brown wrote:

quoted

The question I have: is there any way I can look at this particular 
commit ID on the remote repo?  I couldn't come up with any way to get 
git fetch to retrieve it.

Unless you have push access, no.  And this is very much by design.  For 
example, when somebody mistakenly pushed a secret (like what lines in the 
kernel infringe on M$ patents, if any) it should be possible to rebase (in 
a hurry), force a push, and have the safe feeling that nobody can fetch 
the secret any longer.

I've found the commits in the 'master' branch, and it looks like the
developer had done a rebase on Sept 3.  I've informed the person asking me
the question to use these commit IDs, and hopefully they won't be doing any
rebasing on their master branch.

Dave