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should git maintenance prefetch be taught to honor remote.fetch refspec?

From
TSTom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Date
Apr 1, 2021, 18:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20210401184914.qmr7jhjbhp2mt3h6@dhcp-10-154-148-175.vpn.oracle.com>

I've recently setup git maintenance and noticed prefetch task fetches ALL remote refs (well not tags) and does not honor remote fetch config settings.

Details:

# narrowed set of remote refs produced by `git fetch --all --prune` $ git show-ref | grep "refs/remotes/" | wc -l 81

# git maintenance prefetch refs $ git show-ref | grep "refs/prefetch/" | wc -l 262

# git worktree with 7 remotes $ git remote | wc -l 7

# some remotes configured to fetch narrowed set of remote refs $ git config --local --list | grep ".fetch=" | wc -l 11

# concrete example of remote fetch config $ git config --local --list | grep "stable.fetch=" remote.stable.fetch=+refs/heads/linux-4.14.y:refs/remotes/stable/linux-4.14.y remote.stable.fetch=+refs/heads/linux-5.4.y:refs/remotes/stable/linux-5.4.y

Should git maintenance prefetch task be taught to honor remote fetch config settings?
Something equivalent to:
git config --local --list \
| sed -ne '/remote\..*fetch=/{s#refs/remotes/#refs/prefetch/#;s#^remote\.\([^\.]\+\)\.fetch=#\1 #;p;};' \
| while read -r remote refspec ; do
    git fetch ${remote} --prune --no-tags --no-write-fetch-head --recurse-submodules=no --refmap= --quiet ${refspec};
done
Regards,
--Tom
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