Re: Fetch remote only if remote hasn't been fetched recently

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> writes:

> Interesting, thank you.
>
> Suppose my network connection is intermittent. While the machine is
> online, `git fetch --prefetch` runs successfully. Later I am offline.
> How can I complete the fetch?

I _think_ that it uses "git fetch --prefetch" to store what is
usually stored at refs/$R to refs/prefetch/$R (so your
remote-tracking branch refs/remotes/origin/frotz is stored at
refs/prefetch/remotes/origin/frotz instead), so I would presume that
it should be the matter of doing something silly like this:

    $ git fetch . 'refs/prefetch/remotes/origin/*:refs/remotes/origin/*'