Here is an alternative approach to the earlier "request-pull" patch.

Junio C Hamano (2):
  fetch: allow asking for an explicit commit object by name
  request-pull: state exact commit object name

 git-request-pull.sh     |    2 +-
 remote.c                |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 t/t5150-request-pull.sh |   11 +++++++----
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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