Vscode: what is "Would you like to enable auto fetching of Git repositories?"

[awebdeveloper]

• VSCode Version: 1.19
• OS Version: osx

Include info on what is "Would you like to enable auto fetching of Git repositories?" along with the alert

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Feature Explanation: Code can automatically and periodically fetch refs from your remotes. It calls git fetch periodically. That way it can show you how many incoming/outgoing commits you might have. This is the feature that the popup asks about.

[puranik3]

I was just Googling for the same :)

[joaomoreno]

I've added an explanation in the first comment of this issue:

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Feature Explanation: Code can automatically and periodically fetch refs from your remotes. It calls git fetch periodically. That way it can show you how many incoming/outgoing commits you might have. This is the feature that the popup asks about.

[taivu]

how would i disable/enable this in after making a selection?

[SandyGlantz]

Same question as @taivu. Plus, will anything on the current VSC set-up change if I select "no" to the prompt?

[briancodes]

Configured via "git.autofetch": false, so can be easily undone

Think this setting was previously true by default, now it's false. The prompt is just to remind you to enable if you wish.

[joaomoreno]

Verification

I've improved the message to:

Would you like Code to periodically run git fetch?

I've also added a Read More link to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=865294 which will soon talk a bit more about this setting: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs/pull/1307