From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Mike Hommey" <mh@glandium.org>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Shawn Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
"Jonathan Tan" <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: always allow fetching of literal SHA1s
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 12:48:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2839966.sklLQJ8GHA@mfick1-lnx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170510182049.GZ28740@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 11:20:49 AM Jonathan Nieder
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > Just a side question, what are the people who use this
> > feature using it for? The only thing I can think of
> > myself is some out of band ref advertisement because
> > you've got squillions of refs as a hack around git's
> > limitations in that area.
>
> That's one use case.
>
> Another is when you really care about the exact sha1 (for
> example because you are an automated build system and
> this is the specific sha1 you have already decided you
> want to build).
> > Are there other use-cases for this? All the commits[1]
> > that touched this feature just explain what, not why.
>
> Similar to the build system case I described above is when
> a human has a sha1 (from a mailing list, or source
> browser, or whatever) and wants to fetch just that
> revision, with --depth=1. You could use "git archive
> --remote", but (1) github doesn't support that and (2)
> that doesn't give you all the usual git-ish goodness.
Perhaps another use case is submodules and repo(android
tool) subprojects since they can be "pinned" to sha1s,
-Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-10 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-09 18:20 [PATCH] fetch-pack: always allow fetching of literal SHA1s Jonathan Tan
2017-05-09 22:16 ` Jeff King
2017-05-10 4:22 ` Shawn Pearce
2017-05-10 4:33 ` Jeff King
2017-05-10 4:46 ` Mike Hommey
2017-05-10 17:50 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-10 18:20 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-10 18:48 ` Martin Fick [this message]
2017-05-10 18:54 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-10 4:57 ` Shawn Pearce
2017-05-10 17:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-10 18:55 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2017-05-11 9:59 ` Jeff King
2017-05-11 19:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-11 21:04 ` Jeff King
2017-05-10 16:44 ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Tan
2017-05-10 18:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-10 22:11 ` [PATCH v3] " Jonathan Tan
2017-05-10 23:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-11 9:46 ` Jeff King
2017-05-11 17:51 ` Jonathan Tan
2017-05-11 20:52 ` Jeff King
2017-05-11 10:05 ` Jeff King
2017-05-11 17:00 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-13 9:29 ` Jeff King
2017-05-11 21:14 ` [PATCH v4] " Jonathan Tan
2017-05-11 21:35 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-11 21:59 ` Jeff King
2017-05-11 22:30 ` [PATCH v5] " Jonathan Tan
2017-05-11 22:46 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-12 2:59 ` Jeff King
2017-05-12 6:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-12 7:59 ` Jeff King
2017-05-12 8:14 ` Jeff King
2017-05-12 18:00 ` Jonathan Tan
2017-05-13 8:30 ` Jeff King
2017-05-12 18:09 ` Jonathan Tan
2017-05-12 19:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-12 3:06 ` Jeff King
2017-05-12 20:45 ` Jonathan Tan
2017-05-12 20:46 ` [PATCH v6] " Jonathan Tan
2017-05-12 22:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-13 8:36 ` Jeff King
2017-05-15 1:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-15 17:32 ` [PATCH v7] " Jonathan Tan
2017-05-15 17:46 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-15 22:10 ` Jeff King
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