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 -- 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