How to show history with remote git repository only in JGit

Question

I only want to run the git log command to get some commit info, and don\'t want to do it after cloning a remote reprository to local. Wonder if there is quick way f

Answer 1

All operations on a Git repository are local. In order to access the history of a repository, you must clone it first.

If you are only interested in the current state you may do a shallow clone to save some bandwidth.