From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 11:27:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add WEBDAV timeout to http-fetch.
Message-ID: <eg82tq$2uq$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7viriwsa75.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I think it is prudent to protect the client from a broken server
> and it is independent from "fixing" the server side.  It would
> perhaps make sense to make this overridable somehow but I am not
> sure how -- .git/config is too global (the problem would be per
> remote site), and having the user to set environment variable
> only when going to specific server is too cumbersome to be
> useful.  This ideally should be a per-remote configuration
> item.

Perhaps use undocumented (hint, hint! for whoever did code this)
per-user ~/.gitconfig?
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git