From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Adam Piatyszek <ediap@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Rafa? Mu?y?o <galtgendo@o2.pl>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ?
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:31:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080328143114.GL7202@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47ECF459.2040500@users.sourceforge.net>
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:36:25PM +0100, Adam Piatyszek wrote:
>
> 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 would certainly be possible to *implement* such a thing, but first
question would be, "why would you want to". One of the things that
makes git so nice is that repositories don't take that much space, and
if you have a local repository (or no network access at all) it's much
faster to consult the local repository at all.
In fact, with svn, I normally consider it a bug that you *have* to
consult the remote repository to do a diff between two arbitrary
revisions.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-28 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-28 13:24 Git vs svn. Is ... possible ? Rafał Mużyło
2008-03-28 13:36 ` Adam Piatyszek
2008-03-28 14:31 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-03-28 14:09 ` Bill Lear
2008-03-31 15:41 ` John Goerzen
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