Re: Git clone stalls at a read(3, ...) saw using strace

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jul 27, 2006, 16:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607270947540.4168@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <b8bf37780607270943w562ec21fuab0eb882b3ccffeb@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, André Goddard Rosa wrote:

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> > 
> > Please try git 1.4.1.1, it fixes git-clone.
> 
> Thank you so much, Pavel!
> 
> Downloading it right now!

The problem is that at least the timeout-fix is a server-side thing, it won't fix the client. So if a server is running the broken 1.4.1 release, it will time out the clients after 10 minutes. It wasn't obvious breakage, because most people do smaller fetches, and never even got close to that timeout (most of my connections tend to be in the seconds ;).

I asked Kees to upgrade kernel.org, but he's apparently busy at OSCON this week, so I'm bcc'ing the other admins here to ask them to upgrade to 1.4.1.1. That won't fix the montavista site, though.

That said, I don't think the timeout problem should have caused a _stall_ of the connection, it should have caused an early EOF and thus a unpack error.

		Linus