"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. We've had SO_KEEPALIVE on git and ssh transports since e47a8583 (2011-12-06) SO_KEEPALIVE for http was added recently (a15d069a) and will be in git 1.8.5 Do you want a shorter timeout for slow (but still alive) servers? -- 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