What are these prefetch refs and how do I get rid of them?
I have been using gitk for years. Today I noticed that there are a bunch of new refs in my repo. See screenshot below.
The ref is prefetch/remotes/origin/<branch>, and there is one like this for every branch.
- What are these?
- Why are they only showing up now?
- How do I get rid of them?
Solution
They are refs used internally by Git since version 2.42 that exist to optimize performance.
Git was updated on the remote.
The new version of gitk included with Git 2.51.0 allows hiding these.
Go to Edit -> Preferences, and in the "Refs to hide" box enter prefetch/*.
To install the latest version of Git, you can use the PPA.
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
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