From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 20:17:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Request: timeout option for remote operations, esp. "git fetch"
Message-ID: <20131110201751.GA18513@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <527BC8DC.7010108@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 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?