From: Eirik Bjørsnøs Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:19:05 GMT Subject: Re: Efficient retrieval of commit log info Message-ID: <34660cca0712120719p2d7cda44s97ab770abd648742@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: > 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.