Re: Remote git-describe ?

["Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

On 1/24/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a command that would give the same output than 'git
> > describe' but on a remote server.
> >
> > Is this possible ?
>
> It would be possible; at a high cost (especially on the remote server):
> You definitely need _all_ commits between the commit you want to describe
> and the tag it eventually finds, and possibly all other commits, too.
>
> So it boils down to fetching all commit objects. It is much cheaper, and
> more efficient, to just fetch the repo and do it locally.
>

really ? Givinig that I would use it to describe the HEAD of the kernel repo:

        $ git describe --remote=<git-server> HEAD

this would make the server parse all commits between HEAD and the
closest tag which seems to me a lot cheaper than downloading the whole
repo...
-- 
Francis