Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This makes sense as a follow-up to e47a8583 (enable SO_KEEPALIVE for > connected TCP sockets, 2011-12-06), I think. Yes, a15d069a19867 for http, too; hat trick :> Anyways, it might've helped Savannah when they had networking problems: http://mid.gmane.org/20160524214102858920068@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx They might be running an old version that didn't send keepalive heartbeats during packing, too. But SO_KEEPALIVE will still help during init when --init-timeout is not set. Perhaps it also makes sense to squash the following xinetd setting into giteveryday.txt, too; since some users could be running out-of-date git but reading new documentation on the web: --- a/Documentation/giteveryday.txt +++ b/Documentation/giteveryday.txt @@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ service git server = /usr/bin/git-daemon server_args = --inetd --export-all --base-path=/pub/scm log_on_failure += USERID + flags = KEEPALIVE } ------------ + -- 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