From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 01:17:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Show URL in the "Getting <foo> list" http-fetch messages
Message-ID: <7vwtjeis09.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051112005803.GZ30496@pasky.or.cz>

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.