From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:24:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] http: automatically retry some requests
Message-ID: <xmqqsgafh2y2.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201015000410.GB328643@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> I see.  With Peff's proposal, the backend service could still set
> Retry-After, and *modern* machines with new enough libcurl would still
> respect it, but older machines[*] would have to use some fallback
> behavior.
>
> I suppose that fallback behavior could be to not retry at all.

Yup, that is a quite attractive approach.  We'll let the passage of
time work for us.