Junio C Hamano wrote:
"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> writes:... Givinig that I would use it to describe the HEAD of the kernel repo: $ git describe --remote=<git-server> HEAD this would make the server parse all commits between HEAD and the closest tag which seems to me a lot cheaper than downloading the whole repo...Do you mean you want to have the server describe the HEAD the server side has (not the HEAD in your repository)? Why?
yes. see below...
I suspect the real motivation of your question lies elsewhere and not in "describe". Suppose we had such a service on the server side, and you asked the server twice and got these (at different times, of course): v2.6.20-rc5-g419dd83 v2.6.20-rc5-gde14569 What useful information can you get between the two? Nothing.
I agree in the context I gave, it's useless.
So I suspect what you are after is not about using describe remotely or describing where the HEAD is; you want to know if there is a new tag near the tip since the last time you checked.
Actually I'd like to generate an archive from a git server. And I want to give the name of the archive file, the ouptut given by 'git describe'. Since I can pass --remote to 'git archive', I do not need anymore to clone the repo before generating the archive. But I still needs it only to run 'git describe' thus my question... thanks -- Francis - 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