Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert

From: A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:28:54 -0400

Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> If you fetch just branches A, B and C, but not D, the origin link from A
> to D is dangling. 

I do not understand how this can be considered an acceptable behavior. 
If an object ID is referenced in an object header, particularly commit 
objects, fetch must gather those objects also because to do otherwise 
breaks the cryptographic authentication in git.