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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Request: git fetch --timeout
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:59:30 -0700
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Right now, there are events which can cause git fetch to hang forever.
This is really problematic in automatic use.

A git fetch --timeout which would exit with a nonzero exit code if no
forward progress is made would be really helpful.

	-hpa