Linus Arver <linusa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 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. > > Nit: perhaps s/locally/already locally/ is better? I forgot to mention that the new flag is missing a documentation entry in Documentation/git.txt. Perhaps something like --no-lazy-fetch:: Do not fetch missing objects. Useful together with `git cat-file -e <object-name>`, for example, to see if the object is already locally available. ?