Re: Commit ae1a7eefff may have broken git behind a firewall

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 12, 2021, 21:17 UTC
Message-ID: <YWX7cd5e5q84CDEv@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOrononRUYK0HmW_tknApUV+ZJeDBwOYMa1Ax-VHXZmoJQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 02:03:39PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:

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> https://github.com/git/git/commit/ae1a7eefff
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> may have broken git behind a firewall:
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2013288
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> I am behind a firewall and using gitproxy:
> 
> exec socat - socks4:proxy-server-name:$1:$2

It's not the firewall; it's socat not handling half-duplex shutdown very well (though you are right that it is related to the commit you found; that's when Git started closing the write pipe when it's done writing).

More discussion in this thread:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/YS1Bni+QuZBOgkUI@coredump.intra.peff.net/

(the short answer is: use "socat -t 10").

-Peff