From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:09:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] git-p4: add config to retry p4 commands; retry 3 times by default
Message-ID: <EFB6754A-8205-4B5C-BD2E-13D2AA211369@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161204140311.26269-1-larsxschneider@gmail.com>


> On 04 Dec 2016, at 15:03, larsxschneider@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> From: Lars Schneider <lars.schneider@autodesk.com>

Hi Junio,

if you decide to queue this patch and/or the "git-p4: fix empty file 
processing for large file system backend GitLFS", please use my 
signed-off address. I accidentally messed up the author field in
both.

Thanks,
Lars


> 
> P4 commands can fail due to random network issues. P4 users can counter
> these issues by using a retry flag supported by all p4 commands [1].
> 
> Add an integer Git config value `git-p4.retries` to define the number of
> retries for all p4 invocations. If the config is not defined then set
> the default retry count to 3.
> 
> [1] https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/global.options.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>