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From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Concurrent fetch commands
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 01:01:26PM +0100, Stefan Haller wrote:
> On 03.01.24 23:10, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Folks who invented "git maintenance" designed their "prefetch" task
> > to perform the best practice, without interfering any foreground
> > fetches by not touching FETCH_HEAD and the remote-tracking branches.
> 
> That's good, but it's for a very different purpose than an IDE's
> background fetch. git maintenance's prefetch is just to improve
> performance for the next pull; the point of an IDE's background fetch is
> to show me which of my remote branches have new stuff that I might be
> interested in pulling, without having to fetch myself. So I *want* this
> to be mucking with my remote-tracking branches.

Use `git remote update`?

Mike