title: Viewing git logs without checking out
body: <p>Is it possible to view the Git logs of a Git repo with a simple command; in other words, without downloading the repo?</p>
  
  <p>I want to read the logs of several repositories on Github and parse them for certain statistics.</p>
  
  <p>For example, for this: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/shumsky/Player" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/shumsky/Player</a></p>
  
  <p>I tried git log -p github.com/shumsky/Player but get an "ambiguous argument" message</p>
  
  <p>I've never really used Git before.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>