From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ? Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:31:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20080328143114.GL7202@mit.edu> References: <20080328132438.GA32646@blackspire> <47ECF459.2040500@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Rafa? Mu?y?o , git@vger.kernel.org To: Adam Piatyszek X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 28 15:32:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JfFcw-0006gX-DQ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:32:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753154AbYC1Obe (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:31:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753180AbYC1Obe (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:31:34 -0400 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:46585 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753089AbYC1Obd (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:31:33 -0400 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id m2SEVGoJ008891; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:31:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from closure.thunk.org (c-67-184-233-39.hsd1.il.comcast.net [67.184.233.39]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id m2SEVEIu012331 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:31:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tytso by closure.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JfFbu-0000HN-7u; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:31:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47ECF459.2040500@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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