Re: VCS comparison table
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Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
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- Oct 17, 2006, 12:07 UTC
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:45:31 +0200 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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". However, it appears that kernel.org for instance doesn't enable this feature.
Sean