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

> On 7/27/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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.
>
> Great! Thank you so much, I will try to contact Montavista.