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Re: Concurrent fetch commands

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KTKonstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru>
Date
Dec 31, 2023, 13:50 UTC
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В Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:30:05 +0100 Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de> пишет:

> Currently, git doesn't seem to be very good at handling two concurrent
> invocations of git fetch (or git fetch and git pull). This is a
> problem because it is common for git clients to run git fetch
> periodically in the background.

I think it's a really weird idea which makes a disservice both to human git users and git servers. IMO clients doing this should be fixed to avoid such behavior, at least by default.

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