# Is there a way to prevent Julia from updating the registries almost every time?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-julia-from-updating-the-registries-almost-every-time/64150>\
**Category:** Package Management\
**Tags:** git, update\
**Created:** [July 6, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-julia-from-updating-the-registries-almost-every-time/64150 "2021-07-06T14:31:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![HanD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hand/32/213908_2.png) [@HanD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HanD)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-julia-from-updating-the-registries-almost-every-time/64150/30 "2021-07-08T09:09:31Z")

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> [@giordano](#):
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> Do you have the registry as a Git repository? 100+ MB is the size of the entire cloned repository

> [@kristoffer.carlsson](#):
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> Even so, a registry update should only do `git fetch` and not reclone the whole repo…

Yes, I have an unpacked Git repo, and I’m also surprised why the update used so much traffic. I agree it shouldn’t. I’m hoping that it was just a local quirk, and the solution suggested by @jdad, i.e., remove and readd the General registry should solve that.

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