RE: [PATCH] remote-curl: don't hang when a server dies before any output

[David Turner <David.Turner@twosigma.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff King [mailto:peff@peff.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 12:02 PM
> To: Junio C Hamano
> Cc: David Turner; git@vger.kernel.org; spearce@spearce.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-curl: don't hang when a server dies before any
> output
> 
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 09:42:57AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > >> Hmph.  I think I tried David's original under GIT_TEST_LONG and saw
> > >> it got stuck; could be the same issue, I guess.
> > >
> > > It works OK here. I think it is just that the test is really slow
> > > (by design).
> >
> > Yeah, I think what I recalled was my old attempt to run the follow-up
> > "any SHA-1" patch without this one.
> 
> Right, that makes sense.
> 
> So I don't feel like we have a good patch for the general case yet, and
> I'm probably not going to get around to implementing it anytime soon. 

I'm confused -- it sounds like your patch actually does work (that is, that Junio's failure was not caused by your patch but by the absence of our patches). And your patch handles more cases than mine.  So we should probably use it instead of mine.