On 11/10/2013 12:17 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > "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? > Yes; note that SO_KEEPALIVE only guarantees that the server is alive at the TCP socket level. If the server is overloaded but technically alive it may still make no meaningful forward progress. -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