VCS comparison table

[Sean]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:45:31 +0200
Jakub Narebski <jnareb at gmail.com> 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".
However, it appears that kernel.org for instance doesn't enable this feature.

Sean