Some users want to jump into work quickly and may benefit from delaying the prefetch operation. Adding a --no-prefetch option would allow setting up an initial clone from the batch download of the tip commit and trees without having the full history.
If we are adding this mode, then we should consider the possibility that this option should also add configuration to avoid the prefetch requests during later git fetch queries. I'm not sure that this is a good idea, but we should think about it before jumping to conclusions.
Some users want to jump into work quickly and may benefit from delaying the prefetch operation. Adding a
--no-prefetchoption would allow setting up an initial clone from the batch download of the tip commit and trees without having the full history.If we are adding this mode, then we should consider the possibility that this option should also add configuration to avoid the prefetch requests during later
git fetchqueries. I'm not sure that this is a good idea, but we should think about it before jumping to conclusions.