Update cargo-fetch.md to remove cargo-prefetch reference by xtqqczze · Pull Request #16568 · rust-lang/cargo

xtqqczze · 2026-01-28T13:57:05Z

Remove the mention of the cargo-prefetch plugin, as it appears to be unmaintained.

ehuss · 2026-02-03T16:29:12Z

I suppose this would be fine. There never seemed to be much interest in this subcommand. However, can you say what the issue with it may be? AFAIK, it should still be working. And why this is opened as a draft?

xtqqczze · 2026-02-03T18:08:18Z

I suppose this would be fine. There never seemed to be much interest in this subcommand. However, can you say what the issue with it may be? AFAIK, it should still be working. And why this is opened as a draft?

I don’t have a strong opinion, I opened this PR mainly to gather feedback. If we decide we want to keep this information, it probably belongs in the See also section rather than the Description section.

weihanglo · 2026-02-03T18:38:04Z

it probably belongs in the See also section rather than the Description section.

kinda agreed with this. No strong opinion on removal or not

xtqqczze · 2026-02-03T19:56:53Z

There never seemed to be much interest in this subcommand.

I think the bar should be high to recommend external plugins in the documentation for built-in Cargo commands. Given the low usage shown by the statistics on crates.io, I think this reference should be removed.

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epage · 2026-03-04T16:41:51Z

it probably belongs in the See also section rather than the Description section.

I was curious about the intent for the See also section. The only reference I found is from https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/man-pages.7.html

A comma-separated list of related man pages, possibly followed by other related pages or documents.

It sounds like the intent is purely for cross-referencing but I feel that isn't as appropriate here because we would want to provide the context for why.

I think the bar should be high to recommend external plugins in the documentation for built-in Cargo commands. Given the low usage shown by the statistics on crates.io, I think this reference should be removed.

Some times the Cargo team needs to experiment and advertise the experiment to see what would be useful, so going purely off of download counts won't always be applicable.

In this case, this has been a while and ehuss mentioned it hasn't had much use. I can go either way.

rustbot · 2026-07-17T20:10:02Z

This PR was rebased onto a different master commit. Here's a range-diff highlighting what actually changed.

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ehuss

Thanks! I'll go ahead and merge. If it ever gets picked up again, we can figure out what to do then.

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Update cargo submodule ## src/tools/cargo 20 commits in 3efb1f477e99b42974b982d939fd100303cdf7db..a09737c688e6b643b3a2e185d076bb4a298d6965 2026-07-17 23:53:19 +0000 to 2026-07-26 15:00:33 +0000 - fix(cli): don't panic during completions when rustup is unavailable (rust-lang/cargo#17263) - docs(workspace): add recommended structure to members field (rust-lang/cargo#17166) - Update cargo-fetch.md to remove cargo-prefetch reference (rust-lang/cargo#16568) - chore: bump to `libgit2-sys@0.18.7+1.9.6` (rust-lang/cargo#17259) - Enable build-dir layout v2 on nightly by default (rust-lang/cargo#17258) - fix(path): clarify error message when path dependency has wrong package (rust-lang/cargo#16927) - fix(toml): warn on hyphenated lint names and duplicates (rust-lang/cargo#17051) - fix(test): gate trim-paths tests on split debuginfo support (rust-lang/cargo#17256) - test(git): Explicitly test for git injection attacks (rust-lang/cargo#17253) - fix(git): Suggest libgit2 if git-cli fails (rust-lang/cargo#17252) - fix(diag): bound transitive unused dependency traversal (rust-lang/cargo#17251) - fix(git): Hide git fetch output without progress (rust-lang/cargo#17243) - revert(lint): Remove `new_implicit_minimum_version_req` (rust-lang/cargo#16321) (rust-lang/cargo#17249) - fix: Add haiku's dylib path (rust-lang/cargo#17248) - Zsh completion: Add `-p` and `--package` flags for `cargo add` (rust-lang/cargo#17247) - refactor(source): Clarify the name of the remote git registry (rust-lang/cargo#17240) - fix(timings): only report units the job queue actually ran (rust-lang/cargo#17238) - Do not include proc-macro deps in rustc search path args (rust-lang/cargo#17236) - chore(deps): update cargo-semver-checks to v0.49.0 (rust-lang/cargo#17237) - rustdoc: rename the doc parts metadata params (rust-lang/cargo#17234) ## src/tools/rustc-perf 12 commits in 0508bdcd37152b28c39b6752828683cdd3f128b5..74ecbcdf88411937a6e39baf2779948565dfd388 2026-07-15 10:20:27 +0000 to 2026-07-27 15:02:48 +0000 - feat: support `@argfile` for rustc-fake (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2509) - Download Clippy when a Clippy profile is requested (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2508) - Add early check for missing rustdoc/clippy in a toolchain (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2507) - Add 2026-07-21 triage (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2506) - use stable extract_if: since 1.87 (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2191) - Update GitHub Actions (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2460) - Update dependency @types/msgpack-lite to v0.1.12 (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2439) - Add 30 day history link to artifact size tab on the compare page (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2505) - Fix selecting color for the bootstrap chart on the toolchain page (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2504) - Add artifact size history chart to toolchain page (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2501) - Parallel frontend compiler support (perf backend only) (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2491) - Run benchmark smoke test for all profiles on Windows on CI (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2503)

Update cargo submodule ## src/tools/cargo 23 commits in 3efb1f477e99b42974b982d939fd100303cdf7db..7c83d4cc0953b81d823e47d640c64da9b8bd4fac 2026-07-17 23:53:19 +0000 to 2026-07-29 21:34:53 +0000 - fix: Pass rustdoc flags to final CCI merge step (rust-lang/cargo#17269) - Reworked how we enable the new build-dir layout on nightly (rust-lang/cargo#17272) - Allow setting `-Zembed-metadata` value from the config (rust-lang/cargo#17266) - fix(cli): don't panic during completions when rustup is unavailable (rust-lang/cargo#17263) - docs(workspace): add recommended structure to members field (rust-lang/cargo#17166) - Update cargo-fetch.md to remove cargo-prefetch reference (rust-lang/cargo#16568) - chore: bump to `libgit2-sys@0.18.7+1.9.6` (rust-lang/cargo#17259) - Enable build-dir layout v2 on nightly by default (rust-lang/cargo#17258) - fix(path): clarify error message when path dependency has wrong package (rust-lang/cargo#16927) - fix(toml): warn on hyphenated lint names and duplicates (rust-lang/cargo#17051) - fix(test): gate trim-paths tests on split debuginfo support (rust-lang/cargo#17256) - test(git): Explicitly test for git injection attacks (rust-lang/cargo#17253) - fix(git): Suggest libgit2 if git-cli fails (rust-lang/cargo#17252) - fix(diag): bound transitive unused dependency traversal (rust-lang/cargo#17251) - fix(git): Hide git fetch output without progress (rust-lang/cargo#17243) - revert(lint): Remove `new_implicit_minimum_version_req` (rust-lang/cargo#16321) (rust-lang/cargo#17249) - fix: Add haiku's dylib path (rust-lang/cargo#17248) - Zsh completion: Add `-p` and `--package` flags for `cargo add` (rust-lang/cargo#17247) - refactor(source): Clarify the name of the remote git registry (rust-lang/cargo#17240) - fix(timings): only report units the job queue actually ran (rust-lang/cargo#17238) - Do not include proc-macro deps in rustc search path args (rust-lang/cargo#17236) - chore(deps): update cargo-semver-checks to v0.49.0 (rust-lang/cargo#17237) - rustdoc: rename the doc parts metadata params (rust-lang/cargo#17234) ## src/tools/rustc-perf 12 commits in 0508bdcd37152b28c39b6752828683cdd3f128b5..74ecbcdf88411937a6e39baf2779948565dfd388 2026-07-15 10:20:27 +0000 to 2026-07-27 15:02:48 +0000 - feat: support `@argfile` for rustc-fake (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2509) - Download Clippy when a Clippy profile is requested (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2508) - Add early check for missing rustdoc/clippy in a toolchain (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2507) - Add 2026-07-21 triage (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2506) - use stable extract_if: since 1.87 (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2191) - Update GitHub Actions (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2460) - Update dependency @types/msgpack-lite to v0.1.12 (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2439) - Add 30 day history link to artifact size tab on the compare page (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2505) - Fix selecting color for the bootstrap chart on the toolchain page (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2504) - Add artifact size history chart to toolchain page (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2501) - Parallel frontend compiler support (perf backend only) (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2491) - Run benchmark smoke test for all profiles on Windows on CI (rust-lang/rustc-perf#2503)

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