Re: Can I fetch an arbitrary commit by sha1?

I also like the feature of being able to fetch commits by SHA-1. My
problem is that it is not clear to end users whether they can fetch
SHA-1 from a specific server or not. For exactly the same server a
"git fetch origin <id-of-commit-x>" first doesn't work and all of the
sudden that command works and updates e.g. FETCH_HEAD. That's because
between the first and the second fetch you fetched that commit already
by fetching a branch.

And even if the commit is known only to the local repo then the fetch
works. I tried to fetch a commit which I just created locally. And the
output is:

git fetch eclipse 382dfeab0e11bd88388d7195114c046c3ec27d8f

From https://git.eclipse.org/r/jgit/jgit
 * branch            382dfeab0e11bd88388d7195114c046c3ec27d8f -> FETCH_HEAD

This gives me the impression that that update was triggered by data
coming from the server https://git.eclipse.org/r/jgit/jgit. But the
server doesn't know the commit. In my eyes the fetch should fail if
the server doesn't know the commit.

Ciao
  Chris