----- Forwarded message from Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo@xxxxx> ----- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:15:36 +0100 From: Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo@xxxxx> To: Adam Piatyszek <ediap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Git vs svn. Is ... possible ? Message-ID: <20080328141536.GC32646@blackspire> References: <20080328132438.GA32646@blackspire> <47ECF459.2040500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <47ECF459.2040500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Status: RO 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. ----- End forwarded message ----- This was meant to be sent to the list, not to a single user. -- 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
