# [galtgendo@o2.pl: Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ?]

3 messages from 2008-03-28 to 2008-03-28. Participants: Rafał Mużyło, David Kastrup, Adam Piatyszek.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12903

## Rafał Mużyło, 2008-03-28 14:34

Subject: [galtgendo@o2.pl: Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ?]
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080328143449.GD32646%40blackspire

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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:15:36 +0100
From: Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo@o2.pl>
To: Adam Piatyszek <ediap@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ?
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:36:25PM +0100, Adam Piatyszek wrote:
> Hi Rafał,
>
> * Rafa? Mu?y?o [28 III 2008 14:24]:
>> Well, the actual question is:
>> In svn I can do a remote diff (diff between two remote revisions) without
>> having to do a checkout, is this possible for git ?
>
> The question makes no sense to me. Git by design is a distributed SCM tool, 
> so there is no such thing like "remote revisions". You can have tracking 
> branches (clones) of some remote repositories, but all the commits on such 
> branches are also stored locally. So you have full access to them, even 
> without a permanent connection to such remote repositories.
>
It's a really simple question.
For svn I can do:
svn diff http:\\<svn path>@<rev. number 1>  http:\\<svn path>@<rev.
number 2>
Can I do the same for git, to avoid `git clone` ?

>
> PS. The encoding you used for your message is not playing well with the 
> Polish accented characters in your name ;)
I think it's your mail program, which is not plaing well with received
mail. My message was a standard, plain-text, UTF-8 encoded email sent by
mutt.

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## David Kastrup, 2008-03-28 14:46

Subject: Re: [galtgendo@o2.pl: Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ?]
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Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo@o2.pl> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:36:25PM +0100, Adam Piatyszek wrote:
>>
>> PS. The encoding you used for your message is not playing well with the 
>> Polish accented characters in your name ;)
> I think it's your mail program, which is not plaing well with received
> mail. My message was a standard, plain-text, UTF-8 encoded email sent by
> mutt.

Actually, it wasn't.  The message body was only ASCII-encoded (which is
perfectly fine as it did not contain any accented letter).  The From
header with your name, however, was properly MIME-encoded as utf-8.

So yes, it would seem like Adam's mail reader got into a tizzy when
trying to create the attribution line from the From header.

-- 
David Kastrup

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## Adam Piatyszek, 2008-03-28 21:04

Subject: Re: [galtgendo@o2.pl: Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ?]
Message-ID: <47ED5D76.6070101@users.sourceforge.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/47ED5D76.6070101%40users.sourceforge.net
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* David Kastrup [28 III 2008 15:46]:
> Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo@o2.pl> writes:
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:36:25PM +0100, Adam Piatyszek wrote:
>>> PS. The encoding you used for your message is not playing well with the 
>>> Polish accented characters in your name ;)
>> I think it's your mail program, which is not plaing well with received
>> mail. My message was a standard, plain-text, UTF-8 encoded email sent by
>> mutt.
> 
> Actually, it wasn't.  The message body was only ASCII-encoded (which is
> perfectly fine as it did not contain any accented letter).  The From
> header with your name, however, was properly MIME-encoded as utf-8.
> 
> So yes, it would seem like Adam's mail reader got into a tizzy when
> trying to create the attribution line from the From header.

Yes. You are right. It seems that Thunderbird is not rfc2047-compliant 
in such a case. I guess I should submit a bug report ;)

Sorry for the noise!

/Adam


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