Do not fetch the CL description when using git cl status --fast.

git_cl.py

Index: git_cl.py
diff --git a/git_cl.py b/git_cl.py
index a2bc0ffbe5a867f7f83d5e0ee9412a5d69bf9509..3b7ab2934eb3fa21c31672a82b6ea99b0366a2a0 100755
--- a/git_cl.py
+++ b/git_cl.py
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ or verify this branch is set up to track another (via the --track argument to
         issue = self.GetIssue()
         try:
           self.description = self.RpcServer().get_description(issue).strip()
-        except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
+        except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
           if e.code == 404:
             DieWithError(
                 ('\nWhile fetching the description for issue %d, received a '
@@ -712,6 +712,12 @@ or verify this branch is set up to track another (via the --track argument to
           else:
             DieWithError(
                 '\nFailed to fetch issue description. HTTP error %d' % e.code)
+        except urllib2.URLError as e:
+          print >> sys.stderr, (
+              'Warning: Failed to retrieve CL description due to network '
+              'failure.')
+          self.description = ''
+
       self.has_description = True
     if pretty:
       wrapper = textwrap.TextWrapper()
@@ -1316,8 +1322,9 @@ def CMDstatus(parser, args):
     return 0
   print cl.GetBranch()
   print 'Issue number: %s (%s)' % (cl.GetIssue(), cl.GetIssueURL())
-  print 'Issue description:'
-  print cl.GetDescription(pretty=True)
+  if not options.fast:
+    print 'Issue description:'

[iannucci, 2014/07/27 18:05:09]

it would be neat to cache this non-fast stuff. It doesn't really change that
often, and it's a useful summary to have (for people who have lots of branches).

[M-A Ruel, 2014/07/28 15:35:41]

The funny thing is that gcl does that. It should be added to git-cl one day.

+    print cl.GetDescription(pretty=True)
   return 0