Re: Fetch remote only if remote hasn't been fetched recently

From: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 11, 2025, 07:00 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGJzqs=Xur+=0=KUSR6TQA-A3zt-Bpyd5-T52_ntuV+mCUrAQA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtt4puhwq.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 at 15:08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Interesting, thank you.
> >
> > Suppose my network connection is intermittent. While the machine is
> > online, `git fetch --prefetch` runs successfully. Later I am offline.
> > How can I complete the fetch?
>
> I _think_ that it uses "git fetch --prefetch" to store what is
> usually stored at refs/$R to refs/prefetch/$R (so your
> remote-tracking branch refs/remotes/origin/frotz is stored at
> refs/prefetch/remotes/origin/frotz instead), so I would presume that
> it should be the matter of doing something silly like this:
>
>     $ git fetch . 'refs/prefetch/remotes/origin/*:refs/remotes/origin/*'
>

Thanks, that worked.

To support Git users with sporadic connectivity, might it be useful to add an option to git fetch? Perhaps `git fetch --offline` or `git fetch --complete-prefetch`?

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch