Re: [Survey] Signed push

Andy Lutomirski [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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.