I've recently setup git maintenance and noticed prefetch task fetches ALL remote refs (well not tags) and does not honor remote fetch config settings. Details: # narrowed set of remote refs produced by `git fetch --all --prune` $ git show-ref | grep "refs/remotes/" | wc -l 81 # git maintenance prefetch refs $ git show-ref | grep "refs/prefetch/" | wc -l 262 # git worktree with 7 remotes $ git remote | wc -l 7 # some remotes configured to fetch narrowed set of remote refs $ git config --local --list | grep ".fetch=" | wc -l 11 # concrete example of remote fetch config $ git config --local --list | grep "stable.fetch=" remote.stable.fetch=+refs/heads/linux-4.14.y:refs/remotes/stable/linux-4.14.y remote.stable.fetch=+refs/heads/linux-5.4.y:refs/remotes/stable/linux-5.4.y Should git maintenance prefetch task be taught to honor remote fetch config settings? Something equivalent to: git config --local --list \ | sed -ne '/remote\..*fetch=/{s#refs/remotes/#refs/prefetch/#;s#^remote\.\([^\.]\+\)\.fetch=#\1 #;p;};' \ | while read -r remote refspec ; do git fetch ${remote} --prune --no-tags --no-write-fetch-head --recurse-submodules=no --refmap= --quiet ${refspec}; done Regards, --Tom