On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:48:37PM -0600, Martin Fick wrote: >> 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. [...] > Perhaps another use case is submodules and repo(android > tool) subprojects since they can be "pinned" to sha1s, Yes, thanks for mentioning that. We've talked a little about making 'git fetch --recurse-submodules' use this feature, either always, or if after the usual fetch the desired commit is not available in the submodule. Jonathan
