Re: Semi-OT: Re: SVN for src, status?

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:40:25PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > 
> > > > And wrt. git, "cvs diff -rHEAD" for git, anyone?
> > > > With svn, just s/cvs/svn/.
> > >
> > > To compare two branches, I think the following should work:
> > >     % git diff master...branch
> > > where master and branch are the branches you're interested in.
> > 
> > The feature I tried to express was how to see changes made on
> > trunk/HEAD/master since your last update.  IIUC in git this
> > requires pulling in changes from the remote repository to a
> > local branch or something.  But this is not the cvs/svn-to-git
> > workflow list.  Yet. :)
> 
> You do have to download the changes; it's just "git fetch".  This is
> probably less bandwidth than a typical "cvs diff" :-)

Is it possible with git to access diffs, logs, file contents etc. from a 
remote repository, running the git commands on a system where you don't 
have a checkout/repository at all?

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Joseph S. Myers
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