Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ?

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Mar 28, 2008, 14:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20080328143114.GL7202@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <47ECF459.2040500@users.sourceforge.net>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:36:25PM +0100, Adam Piatyszek wrote:

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> 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