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Stupidly inefficient. `git ls-remote --heads --tags ‹URL›`

• oxplot 11y ago
  That only gives you the commit for the head of the branches. If there were multiple commits since you checked last, you'll miss some!
  • fenollp 11y ago
    You will miss some. But then you just make a diff on the commits' SHA and only then you clone the repo (or fetch an archive, which is quicker). You save a lot of time / bandwidth / space this way.
    • oxplot 11y ago
      You only delay saving time and bandwidth — you eventually have to clone the repo for any ops other than checking the head SHAs and unless the repo is rarely updated, the delay will be short.
      • fenollp 11y ago
        Use git-archive or curl: gzipped source code is always smaller than a full versioned repo…
        • oxplot 11y ago
          You don't need the full versioned repo, just the top commit (ie cloning with depth=1). Also, git compresses the objects before sending them.