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zedoo
zedoo

Reputation: 11287

How to set a timeout for "git push" and "git pull"?

all questions I found want to avoid timeouts in git push/pull. In my case I want to force them. My push + pulls are all going over ssh to remote machines that might be unavailable at some point in time. For example, I have a script that pushes to two remote public repos. I don't want that this script hangs forever when it pushes to the first repo and that machine is unavailable. Instead, after some timeout i want the push to fail and continue with the second repo.

Any options here?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 10398

Answers (2)

CAD bloke
CAD bloke

Reputation: 8808

git config settings for using http for transfers:

http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime:: If the HTTP transfer speed, in bytes per second, is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit' for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted. Can be overridden by the GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT and GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME environment variables. documentation for Git config

e.g., add to your .gitconfig:

  # Abort if transfer speed is less than 1000 bytes/second for more than 5 seconds
  lowSpeedLimit = 1000
  lowSpeedTime = 5

or, using environment variables, e.g.,

$ GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT=1000 GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME=5 git pull

Upvotes: 1

Aristotle Pagaltzis
Aristotle Pagaltzis

Reputation: 118039

I don’t think you can do an automatic fail-over with built-in features. But since Git just uses SSH underneath, it should work to add a ConnectTimeout option for the machines in question in your .ssh/config. Cf. man ssh_config. Then something like git push foo || git push bar in the shell should do what you want.

Upvotes: 14

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