Sean wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:45:31 +0200 > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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". Not exactly. "Light checkout" (aka "lazy one-branch clone") in bzr contains also info about the repository it came from, and has some metadata that you can commit to it locally. git tar-tree --remote just gets snapshot. > However, it appears that kernel.org for instance doesn't enable this > feature. One can get snapshot from gitweb... if gitweb is new enough and has this feature enabled (it is enabled by default). Again not the case of kernel.org -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html