Re: Efficient retrieval of commit log info

From: Eirik Bjørsnøs <eirbjo@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 12, 2007, 15:19 UTC
Message-ID: <34660cca0712120719p2d7cda44s97ab770abd648742@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712121001430.555@xanadu.home>

> On the other hand, this is pretty trivial to extend the protocol so only
> commit objects are transferred.  Using 'git log' on the client side
> would work, as long as you don't use any of the content walking options.

Nicolas,

So what you're suggesting is that:

1) git-clone could be changed such that the user could ask not to
fetch content, only commit objects.
2) git-daemon (or the protocol layer, again I'm not familiar with the
implementation) could be changed such that it only sends commit
objects on request.
3) Changes to git-log is not necessary.

Anybody have a clue how much work this would require and if this is something that would be generally useful for the community?

Eirik.