From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:34:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Efficient retrieval of commit log info
Message-ID: <8aa486160712120734u7d77cc0ew7b3ab1663db1fa62@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712121453150.27959@racer.site>

On Dec 12, 2007 3:55 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Eirik Bj?rsn?s wrote:
>
[...]
> > What I would like to do is to fetch just the change log information
> > from the remote repository.
> >
[ ... ]
>
> It is not possible to get just the metadata.  Remember, svn can do it only
> since the repository is purely remote.  And git is a SCM (source code
> management system), not a CMV (commit metadata viewer).
>
> You might be able to cobble up something that works accessing gitweb, but
> it might be even more inefficient.

You could see how it is done in the git-browser:

http://repo.or.cz/w/git-browser.git

It is a gitk-like browser written in javascript. But I suspect that it
should be enabled in the web server.

Santi