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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:17:42 -0800
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To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> By the way, this is only a pathetic remnant of my brave effort to get
> rid of seeing the "Getting alternates list" message on the same
> repository 20 times now since the parallel fetching got introduced.
> I know how to do silence the messages, but doing the _fetching_ itself
> seems as downright stupid thing in the first place.
>
> Therefore, can I somehow stall fetching of an object? The idea is:
>
> 	I want to check the alternates list!
> 	I don't have it yet...
> 	...but a request for it is already queued. Ok, I'll wait.

I agree, and probably this applies when index request is in
transit as well.