From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:01:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Concurrent fetch commands
Message-ID: <867b0189119ebb9eb5ac64426aef558b@manjaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <20231231165042.1d934927@RedEyes>

On 2023-12-31 14:50, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> 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.

Could you, please, elaborate a bit on the resulting disservice?  
Regarding fixing the clients, IDE users often expect such automatic 
updating to be performed in the background, so I'm afraid there's not 
much wiggle room there.