Subject: Request: git fetch --timeout

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:59:30 -0700

Right now, there are events which can cause git fetch to hang forever.
This is really problematic in automatic use.

A git fetch --timeout which would exit with a nonzero exit code if no
forward progress is made would be really helpful.

	-hpa