From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 2/6] Add remote.name.timeout to configure an IO timeout Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:28:48 +0200 Message-ID: <200906210028.48954.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <1245446875-31102-1-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> <1245446875-31102-2-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> <1245446875-31102-3-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 21 00:29:15 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MI93d-0000yM-Hs for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:29:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755005AbZFTW27 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:28:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754900AbZFTW26 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:28:58 -0400 Received: from mail.dewire.com ([83.140.172.130]:26449 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754741AbZFTW25 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:28:57 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A50147D72E; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:28:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino.dewire.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LOvDBfbIRcnh; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:28:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sleipner.localnet (unknown [10.9.0.3]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20388147D72B; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:28:50 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1245446875-31102-3-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: fredag 19 juni 2009 23:27:51 skrev "Shawn O. Pearce" : > An IO timeout can be useful if the remote peer stops responding, > and the user wants the application to abort rather than block > indefinitely waiting for more input. > > This is a JGit specific extension to the standard remote format. Can we we assume C Git won't implement the same thing with a different parameter name, or worse, the same name, but a different unit? -- robin