From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Elrond <elrond+kernel.org@samba-tng.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remote git-cat-file?
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 17:29:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605271727110.5623@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20060528T002420-957@post.gmane.org>
On Sat, 27 May 2006, Elrond wrote:
>
> Is it possible via the git: protocol to do a git-cat-file?
>
> To download just one object by its ID?
Nope.
Well, depending on just how much you know about the object, you can fake
it. For example, if you already know it's a commit, and you know the
parents, then yes, you can download it by basically saying that you want
that particular object and you already have the parents.
But in the general case, the answer is no. Set up a gitweb thing, and look
up the objects that way. Or just pull the repo, and look at it locally.
Just out of interest, why would you ever want to just look at a single
object?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-28 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-27 22:26 Remote git-cat-file? Elrond
2006-05-28 0:29 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-05-28 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-28 10:57 ` Elrond
2006-05-28 12:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-28 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-28 18:34 ` Jakub Narebski
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