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Git auto-fetch
Automatically fetches all changes from all remotes while you are working in a git-initialized directory.
To use it, add git-auto-fetch to the plugins array in your zshrc file:
plugins=(... git-auto-fetch)
Usage
Every time the command prompt is shown all remotes will be fetched in the background. By default,
git-auto-fetch will be triggered only if the last auto-fetch was done at least 60 seconds ago.
You can change the fetch interval in your .zshrc:
GIT_AUTO_FETCH_INTERVAL=1200 # in seconds
A log of git fetch --all will be saved in .git/FETCH_LOG.
Toggle auto-fetch per folder
If you are using a mobile connection or for any other reason you can disable git-auto-fetch for any folder:
$ cd to/your/project
$ git-auto-fetch
disabled
$ git-auto-fetch
enabled
Caveats
Automatically fetching all changes defeats the purpose of git push --force-with-lease,
and makes it behave like git push --force in some cases. For example:
Consider that you made some changes and possibly rebased some stuff, which means you'll
need to use --force-with-lease to overwrite the remote history of a branch. Between the
time when you make the changes (maybe do a git log) and the time when you git push,
it's possible that someone else updates the branch you're working on.
If git-auto-fetch triggers then, you'll have fetched the remote changes without knowing
it, and even though you're running the push with --force-with-lease, git will overwrite
the recent changes because you already have them in your local repository. The
git push --force-with-lease docs talk about possible
solutions to this problem.