Thanks for bringing this issue up and proposing a pair of improvements. I am very inclined to apply [1/2] to maint. I am not convinced if [2/2] is a good idea in general but if it is silent on pull and verbose on one-off fetch without local store, it probably is an improvement. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html