remotemobprogramming
Avoid git fetch'ing all branches by default
On a repo with a significant number of remote branches, fetching all remotes takes a substantial amount of time (literal minutes in our case where there are thousands of remotes)
This changes each git fetch call to fetch only the current branch name, and has specialcase handling for the mob start --create option where we know we want to create a brand new branch.
Appreciate this might not be a problem for most people!
Hi thank you for your contribution. The tests do not successfully complete. But I even think that just fetching the current branch is not a solution. At least you would have to check for the correlated mob branch if you are on a base branch and vice versa. And even then I am not sure if that would work right now.
Could you explain to me why the repo of your Project has so many things that get fetched? I want to understand the background behind it.
thanks for taking an interest! the repo i'm working on currently has over 4000 open branches, and by way of example, had 178 merges in the last 4 hours, ie 178 branches closed/deleted. that makes the overhead of an unqualified git pull or git fetch prohibitive, hence wanting to only pull/fetch the current branch, if i can.
sorry for not finding the tests! I've never written any Go before so i'm finding my feet.
just fetching the current branch is not a solution. At least you would have to check for the correlated mob branch if you are on a base branch and vice versa. And even then I am not sure if that would work right now.
can you tell me a bit more about why it wouldn't work?