Steven, In this case nohup seems like a pain. There is a utility called "screen" available on most unixes. It allows you to create a virtual terminal that you can detach from. After you detach you can log out, some time later log back in and then reattach. Steve On Jan 12, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Steven Line wrote: > Thank you Jonathan. > > I had a breakthrough yesterday on this problem. To make a long story > short my ssh connection to the server where I was running 'nohup git > svn clone' was timing out. Additionally the nohup I was using wasn't > really protecting the git svn clone process so an hour or two after > the ssh disconnected, the git would terminate leaving me with an > imcomplete repository. I don't understand why the nohup wasn't > working yet. So my problem wasn't due to git itself. > > I started my most recent git svn clone and it's now been running for > 18 hours. I'm optimistic that I've solved the problem. If my git > does terminate early then I'll try a 'git svn fetch' to complete the > clone, based on what you said in your post. > > -- > Steven Line > 303-910-1212 > sline00@xxxxxxxxx > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html