Re: Git clone stalls at a read(3, ...) saw using strace

["André Goddard Rosa" <andre.goddard@gmail.com>]

On 7/27/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
> > >
> > > Please try git 1.4.1.1, it fixes git-clone.
> >
> > Thank you so much, Pavel!
> >
> > Downloading it right now!
>
> The problem is that at least the timeout-fix is a server-side thing, it
> won't fix the client. So if a server is running the broken 1.4.1 release,
> it will time out the clients after 10 minutes. It wasn't obvious breakage,
> because most people do smaller fetches, and never even got close to that
> timeout (most of my connections tend to be in the seconds ;).
>
> I asked Kees to upgrade kernel.org, but he's apparently busy at OSCON this
> week, so I'm bcc'ing the other admins here to ask them to upgrade to
> 1.4.1.1. That won't fix the montavista site, though.
>
> That said, I don't think the timeout problem should have caused a _stall_
> of the connection, it should have caused an early EOF and thus a unpack
> error.

Great! Thank you so much, I will try to contact Montavista.

Best regards,
-- 
[]s,
André Goddard