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Getting remote git commit log without local copy

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Mar 15, 202633527 views
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Problem

I want to get a copy of the commit log from a remote GIT repository without cloning/pulling it to my local machine and using only SSH. Is this possible? For example, I want to do something like: This will need to be generic. I know about the GitHub API (that was just an example); the command needs …

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git log -- git@github.com/twitter/bootstrap.git

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Fix for: Getting remote git commit log without local copy

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is this possible? In short: no, not exactly. However, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1178389/browse-and-display-files-in-a-git-repo-without-cloning has a nice alternative to running an SSH command remotely on the machine where the git repositor…

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