Sometimes, especially during tests of low level machinery, it is handy to have a way to disable lazy fetching of objects. This allows us to say, for example, "git cat-file -e <object-name>", to see if the object is locally available. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- git.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/git.c b/git.c index 7068a184b0..fd9b0e6a9e 100644 --- a/git.c +++ b/git.c @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include "exec-cmd.h" #include "gettext.h" #include "help.h" +#include "object-file.h" #include "pager.h" #include "read-cache-ll.h" #include "run-command.h" @@ -186,6 +187,8 @@ static int handle_options(const char ***argv, int *argc, int *envchanged) use_pager = 0; if (envchanged) *envchanged = 1; + } else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--no-lazy-fetch")) { + fetch_if_missing = 0; } else if (!strcmp(cmd, "--no-replace-objects")) { disable_replace_refs(); setenv(NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS_ENVIRONMENT, "1", 1); -- 2.43.0-581-g5216f8f5c4