Re: Efficient retrieval of commit log info

> I'm developing a piece of software that grabs logs from various types of 
> SCMs and presents (hopefully) useful information about the history.
> 
> My current approach with Git is do a "git clone --n" and then parse the 
> output of "git log". To check for updates I do a "git pull" followed by 
> a new "git log".
> 
> This approach works fine, but cloning the whole repository just to get 
> the change log seems like a somewhat inefficient use of bandwidth and 
> storage.
> 
> What I would like to do is to fetch just the change log information
> from the remote repository.
> 
> (Using the "CVS done right" tool I can do this with: "svn log --xml -v
> -r<last, HEAD> http://svn.example.com/")
> 
> I haven't found a way to do this using the Git command line tools.