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 -- 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