On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 17:18:30 -0700 (PDT) TSU <tonysu...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...] > The second reason you gave is my objective, am looking to perform a > remote "copy" operation from one branch (master) to another > (gh-pages), and try to execute that without downloading to the > client, so as to avoid unnecessary downloading to the client if not > needed. This is not really possible with Git client *solely,* because remote repositories are not at all special to Git (which is a DVCS system). AFAIK Git can only fetch history from a remote or push history to a remote (also delete named references there, as a special case--by pushing nothing to them). There *is* a way to perform true remote copy iff you have a shell access on the remote machine (well, this is obvious, but I think some people underestimate what SSH can do for them). But this is not the case for github and other specialized Git hosting solutions, which use virtualized users and lock down as much as possible. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
