Mark Waite

> @MarkEWaite Can you please review and merge this? I am running into it. @brd have you confirmed that the change fixes your issue and does not have undesirable side...

> Just as a bit of concern: if there are some long-lived workspaces on the same host so Git would use references to "another index", I believe GC can invalidate...

Needs tests that call the new methods and check that they are functional.

@Hrushi20 I can duplicate the maintenance test failure in GitClientTest on Java 17.0.4.1 on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 machine and on my Ubuntu 22.04 machine. The test passes...

> @MarkEWaite, do I skip prefetch for ssh protocols? I tried using the `git ls-remote` command and CliGit waits for infinitely for me to enter my ssh password. For http...

> So I'll call `git ls-remote`. Based on your above statement, it will fail immediately for ssh protocol. Once failed, I can skip the prefetch on that task. I'm not...

The change breaks compatibility as shown by the automated test that fails. It will need to be a flag that is passed into the API rather than an "always on"...

Yes, that sounds about right. Include tests to confirm the old behavior and the new behavior

> ... Include tests to confirm the old behavior and the new behavior @anatoly-spb as far as I can tell, you have not created any tests to confirm the new...

See #205 for a similar request