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>several of which are used just to calculate the "your branch is ahead of origin/your-branch-name by N commits" value.

That one at least is fixed now, by having an option to disable it.

https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.23.0/Documentation/config...

That git setting is for `git status`, but I think `git checkout branch` still doesn't have a comparable option either on the command line or in a git configuration file. The closest you can get is to turn off all output with `git checkout -q`.

Oh yes, I just tested it out and you're right. Bummer.

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