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

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> M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Hi. I'd like to fetch from a particular remote, but only if that
> > remote hasn't been fetched in the last hour. How could I achieve this?
> > Is there a relevant option for `git fetch`?
> >
> > https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch
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> "git fetch" is "I want to fetch now".  If you want to pace your
> fetches, you have to keep a record of when you fetched in the past
> and work from there.
>
> I sense there perhaps is an XY problem?
>
> If "git fetch" is done outside end-user's supervision and explicit
> intent, the remote-tracking branches will become much less useful to
> the human users.  A good solusion that avoids this issue already
> exists as the "prefetch" task of the "git maintenance" suite.