Re: VCS comparison table
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- Erik Bågfors <zindar@gmail.com>
- Date
- Oct 21, 2006, 08:48 UTC
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- <845b6e870610210148l1337fc06n238eca0a2f382d0b@mail.gmail.com>
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- <ehclkf$v3e$1@sea.gmane.org>
On 10/21/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sean wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:45:31 +0200 > > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 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 [<revision>:|:<stage>:]<filename>"), list > >> directory (with "git ls-tree <tree-ish>") 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.
No, a lightweight checkout doesn't have that. A lightweight checkout is basically just the latest revision checked out, a snapshot. For everything else it needs to go the remote branch to get information. You cannot commit locally on a "lightwieght checkout"
A "normal/heavyweight" checkout has the ability to commit locally.
/Erik