On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 04:22:11PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > I occasionally use FETCH_HEAD for such things. If we were to stop > writing it automatically, I think the key thing to notice is whether the > result was actually stored anywhere else. Or more accurately, whether > the user asked for any refspecs on the command line (since we'd still > update tracking refs in some cases). > > If I do: > > git fetch > > or: > > git fetch origin refs/heads/foo:refs/heads/foo > > then I probably don't care about FETCH_HEAD. But if I do: > > git fetch origin refs/heads/foo > > then I'm probably interested in picking the result out of FETCH_HEAD. I think adding all this logic is not worth the effort. For vast numbers of people who aren't running Android mirrors, FETCH_HEAD is only going to be a few KB in size, so they won't benefit from this change at all. I'm happy with just an option that I have to enable to turn off writing FETCH_HEAD. -K
