From T300#4210
$ git clone mediawiki::http://home.localdomain repo Cloning into 'repo'... Searching revisions... No previous mediawiki revision found. ... fetching from beginning. Fetching & writing export data by revs... Listing pages on remote wiki... 1 pages found. 1/3: Revision #1 of Main_Page 2/3: Revision #2 of Main_Page 3/3: Revision #3 of Main_Page Searching revisions... No previous mediawiki revision found. ... fetching from beginning. Fetching & writing export data by revs... 1/3: Revision #1 of Main_Page 2/3: Revision #2 of Main_Page 3/3: Revision #3 of Main_Page
It shouldn't need to get the pages twice in one session.