Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
Ok, but the output from fetch is meant to be human readable and we do
not promise parsability, so if we go this route (which I think you made
s/parsability/machine &/;
a sensible argument for) we would need a hook on the pushing end to act
on this (perhaps record the correspondence of pushed and rewritten sha1
somewhere for the hook's own use).
s/on this/& information/;
s/own use/& in machine readable way/;