ToddAndMargo via users writes:
> On 10/10/21 17:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> You're trying to reinvent the wheel. This a web interface to a plain,
>> garden variety, git repository.
>>
>> Forget curl. Use git.
>>
>> $ git clone
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/win32/spice-nsis.git
>> Cloning into 'spice-nsis'…
>> remote: Enumerating objects: 461, done.
>> remote: Total 461 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 461
>> Receiving objects: 100% (461/461), 89.54 KiB | 8.14 MiB/s, done.
>> Resolving deltas: 100% (275/275), done.
>> $ cd spice-nsis
>> $ git show | sed '1,10p'
>> commit f6ad44f35f5caeec51b7002169977272d85701a3
>> commit f6ad44f35f5caeec51b7002169977272d85701a3
>> Author: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>> Author: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>> Date: Tue Feb 5 16:49:45 2019 +0100
>> Date: Tue Feb 5 16:49:45 2019 +0100
>>
>>
>> virtio-win: rebase on 0.164
>> virtio-win: rebase on 0.164
>>
>> And a little bit of scripting, or by picking the right options to
>> "git show", to get just what you want. I'm too lazy to read
>> git-show's man page, but there's probably a way to have it show just
>> the commit message, and nothing else.
>>
>> Anytime you want to recheck, just cd back to the same directory, do a
>> "git pull", and see what you got.
>
>
> Any way to get git to show me the revision
> without downloading the turkey?
Looks like this entire git repo is only 348kb. Now, with the
linux-kernel repo this would probably be a consideration but not for
something as small as this.
I am being a perfectionist. I will drop back to this
if I can't figure out a workaround