Re: 2.6.17-rc6-mm2

From: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>
Date: 2006-06-20 13:01:26
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Goo GGooo wrote:
> 
>> I suggest adding SO_KEEPALIVE option on the git socket.
> 
> Actually, the really irritating thing is that we actually generate all 
> these nice status updates, which just makes pulling and cloning a lot more 
> comfortable, because you actually see what is going on, and what to 
> expect. 
> 
> Except they only work over ssh, where we have a separate channel (for 
> stderr), and with the native git protocol all that nice status work just 
> gets flushed to /dev/null :(

OpenBSD has CVS access to their repos over SSH even for anonymous users.
Could something similar be set up on git.kernel.org as well?

> And in your case, the usability downside actually turned into a real 
> accessibility bug.

Same issue here. Thanks for the hint. Attached is a patch against git
1.4.0 that solves it perfectly in my case.

Sysctl settings (for keepalive every 10 sec):
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl=10
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time=10

Michal

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