That probably worked because another branch has the commit sha1 in its history. Once you download it you can access it locally, of course.
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:56:13 PM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2014-08-13 16:29, Volker Braun wrote: > > It is by design that you cannot git fetch by sha1. Only named commits > > can be retrieved from a remote git server. > Thanks for the info, I solved the problem by first doing > > $ git fetch trac > > and then you can use the sha1 in the usual way. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-git" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
