From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:27:05 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <200610171030.35854.jnareb@gmail.com> <200610171345.32313.jnareb@gmail.com> <20061017080702.615a3b2f.seanlkml__27953.817000571$1161408618$gmane$org@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Sat Oct 21 10:28:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org Received: from esperanza.ubuntu.com ([82.211.81.173]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GbCDU-0001yr-2k for gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:28:28 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=esperanza.ubuntu.com) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GbCDF-00081n-2M; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:28:13 +0100 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GbCC9-0007xp-FB for bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:27:05 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GbCC8-0001qP-3K for bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:27:04 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.23.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:27:04 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:27:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com Followup-To: gmane.comp.version-control.git X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 X-BeenThere: bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: bazaar-ng discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Errors-To: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Archived-At: Sean wrote: > 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". Not exactly. "Light checkout" (aka "lazy one-branch clone") in bzr contains also info about the repository it came from, and has some metadata that you can commit to it locally. git tar-tree --remote just gets snapshot. > However, it appears that kernel.org for instance doesn't enable this > feature. One can get snapshot from gitweb... if gitweb is new enough and has this feature enabled (it is enabled by default). Again not the case of kernel.org