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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Fetching SHA id's instead of named references?
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:33:03 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Klas Lindberg wrote:

> Is there a way to fetch based on SHA id's instead of named references?

No, out of security concerns;  imagine you included some proprietary 
source code by mistake, and undo the damage by forcing a push with a 
branch that does not have the incriminating code.  Usually you do not 
control the garbage-collection on the server, yet you still do not want 
other people to fetch "by SHA-1".

BTW this is really a strong reason not to use HTTP push in such 
environments.

Ciao,
Dscho