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authorElijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>2023-10-08 06:45:03 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-10-09 12:04:21 -0700
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documentation: wording improvements
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@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ prefetch::
requested refs within `refs/prefetch/`. Also, tags are not updated.
+
This is done to avoid disrupting the remote-tracking branches. The end users
-expect these refs to stay unmoved unless they initiate a fetch. With prefetch
-task, however, the objects necessary to complete a later real fetch would
-already be obtained, so the real fetch would go faster. In the ideal case,
+expect these refs to stay unmoved unless they initiate a fetch. However,
+with the prefetch task, the objects necessary to complete a later real fetch
+would already be obtained, making the real fetch faster. In the ideal case,
it will just become an update to a bunch of remote-tracking branches without
any object transfer.