From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Request: timeout option for remote operations, esp. "git fetch" Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 09:07:40 -0800 Message-ID: <527BC8DC.7010108@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 07 18:07:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VeT3g-0001Ss-8P for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:07:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754552Ab3KGRHt (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:07:49 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42257 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753459Ab3KGRHs (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:07:48 -0500 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org ([IPv6:2601:9:3340:50:a42d:7aff:febf:9551]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.zytor.com (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id rA7H7jj4032160 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 09:07:46 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: When a remote server is unavailable or very slow, some git commands can stall out indefinitely. It would be a very good thing if remote commands -- but especially git fetch -- could be given a timeout. -hpa