Make git notify the user about host resolution/connection attempts. This
is useful both as a progress indicator on slow links, and helps reassure the
user there are no DNS/firewall problems.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I find the following useful.
This currently only covers native git protocol. I expect it would
be easy to extend this to other protocols, if there's interest.
Opinions?
diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index da89c9c..f026713 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -425,9 +425,11 @@ static int git_tcp_connect_sock(char *host)
hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP;
+ fprintf(stderr, "Looking up %s ... ", host);
gai = getaddrinfo(host, port, &hints, &ai);
if (gai)
die("Unable to look up %s (port %s) (%s)", host, port, gai_strerror(gai));
+ fprintf(stderr, "done.\nConnecting to %s (port %s) ... ", host, port);
for (ai0 = ai; ai; ai = ai->ai_next) {
sockfd = socket(ai->ai_family,
@@ -450,6 +452,8 @@ static int git_tcp_connect_sock(char *host)
if (sockfd < 0)
die("unable to connect a socket (%s)", strerror(saved_errno));
+ fprintf(stderr, "done.\n");
+
return sockfd;
}
--
MST
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