Continued from yiisoft/yii2#8688 (comment)

Proposal: Add an option, like --skip-asset-info-update or ENV variable FXP_SKIP_ASSET_INFO_UPDATE to disable git and/or GitHub API requests, which query for new versions/tags, since this might take a while.

The option should only have an effect, when local information about the repository already exists. If not the plugin should download the information.