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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
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Subject: Re: Concurrent fetch commands
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Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> 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`?

Hmph, it seems that it does not pass "--no-write-fetch-head" so it
would interfere with the foreground "fetch" or "pull" the end user
consciously makes, exactly the same way Stefan's demonstration in
the first message in the thread, no?