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clone hang prevention / timeout?

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JDJason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 11, 2016, 21:49 UTC
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It appears GIT has no way of specifying a timeout for a clone operation - if the server decides not to complete a get request, the clone can hang forever - is this correct ? This appears to be what I am seeing, in a script that is attempting to do many successive clone operations, eg. of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/* , the script occasionally hangs in a clone - I can see with netstat + strace that the TCP connection is open and GIT is trying to read . Is there any option I can specify to get the clone to timeout, or do I manually have to strace the git process and send it a signal after a hang is detected?

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