Re: Remote git-describe ?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 24, 2007, 11:03 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701241201410.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0701240231v5ec4acfasd838ececb316500d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Francis Moreau wrote:

> I'm looking for a command that would give the same output than 'git
> describe' but on a remote server.
> 
> Is this possible ?

It would be possible; at a high cost (especially on the remote server): You definitely need _all_ commits between the commit you want to describe and the tag it eventually finds, and possibly all other commits, too.

So it boils down to fetching all commit objects. It is much cheaper, and more efficient, to just fetch the repo and do it locally.

Hth, Dscho