Question

I am looking for a way to query a git server for its logs for a given range of commits. Being an SVN user, I’m in the wrong mindset so Im hoping GIT experts can help. I’m looking to something similar to:

svn log -r 5:20 --xml svn.myserver.com

but for a git server. In other words, show me the logs for the 5th commit through to the 20th commit. thanks for any help.

Answer 1

First, since there is no simple revision number with Git, you would specify revision as mentioned in the rev-parse command.

But the only command which queries directly a remote repo (without cloning or fetching data) is git ls-remote, and:

• it will display only SHA1, not the log message.
• it works on ref patterns (head, tags, branches, …), not with revs.

Since log can show diffstats and full diffs, you cannot ask for logs without at least fetching a remote in a local repo.