From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:54:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Concurrent fetch commands
Message-ID: <20240104205408.h5wvcissfbat7acw@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <80efcb43-122c-421a-b763-6da6ff620538@haller-berlin.de>

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