From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sean Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:07:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <200610171030.35854.jnareb@gmail.com> <200610171345.32313.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthieu Moy , Aaron Bentley , Linus Torvalds , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 17 14:07:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZniw-0006rq-La for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:07:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750717AbWJQMHH (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:07:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750720AbWJQMHH (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:07:07 -0400 Received: from bayc1-pasmtp04.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.164]:38687 "EHLO BAYC1-PASMTP04.bayc1.hotmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750717AbWJQMHE (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:07:04 -0400 X-Originating-IP: [65.93.43.81] X-Originating-Email: [seanlkml@sympatico.ca] Received: from linux1.attic.local ([65.93.43.81]) by BAYC1-PASMTP04.bayc1.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:07:04 -0700 Received: from guru.attic.local ([10.10.10.28]) by linux1.attic.local with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZmmk-0005Yn-MB; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:07:02 -0400 To: Jakub Narebski Message-Id: <20061017080702.615a3b2f.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <200610171345.32313.jnareb@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.4; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Oct 2006 12:07:04.0288 (UTC) FILETIME=[C2651600:01C6F1E4] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:45:31 +0200 Jakub Narebski wrote: > Git cannot do that remotely (with exception of git-tar-tree/git-archive > which has --remote option), yet. But you can get contents of a file > (with "git cat-file -p [:|::]"), list > directory (with "git ls-tree ") and compare files or > directories (git diff family of commands) without need for working > directory. Interesting, I didn't know about the --remote option. So in fact as long as the remote has enabled upload-tar then anyone can do a "light checkout". However, it appears that kernel.org for instance doesn't enable this feature. Sean