On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 at 17:55, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > M Hickford <mirth.hickford@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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 > > "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. 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?
