[galtgendo@o2.pl: Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ?]

["Rafał Mużyło" <galtgendo@o2.pl>]

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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:15:36 +0100
From: Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo@o2.pl>
To: Adam Piatyszek <ediap@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ?
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:36:25PM +0100, Adam Piatyszek wrote:
> Hi Rafał,
>
> * Rafa? Mu?y?o [28 III 2008 14:24]:
>> Well, the actual question is:
>> In svn I can do a remote diff (diff between two remote revisions) without
>> having to do a checkout, is this possible for git ?
>
> The question makes no sense to me. Git by design is a distributed SCM tool, 
> so there is no such thing like "remote revisions". You can have tracking 
> branches (clones) of some remote repositories, but all the commits on such 
> branches are also stored locally. So you have full access to them, even 
> without a permanent connection to such remote repositories.
>
It's a really simple question.
For svn I can do:
svn diff http:\\<svn path>@<rev. number 1>  http:\\<svn path>@<rev.
number 2>
Can I do the same for git, to avoid `git clone` ?

>
> PS. The encoding you used for your message is not playing well with the 
> Polish accented characters in your name ;)
I think it's your mail program, which is not plaing well with received
mail. My message was a standard, plain-text, UTF-8 encoded email sent by
mutt.

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