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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing support for mercurial repos in repositories.xml
From:       Cédric Krier <cedk () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2018-09-29 9:42:23
Message-ID: 20180929094223.5cfyklnj6eu2mwcg () kei
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On 2018-09-23 22:42, Michał Górny wrote:
> Yes, I could add process timeouts.  But small timeouts are going to
> break the occasional necessity of cloning big repos, and big timeouts
> are going to make little difference when Mercurial starts hanging again.
> 
> If someone really cares about this horrible piece of software, I'd
> appreciate patches (preferably going upstream) to make it timeout sanely
> when something hangs.  Otherwise, I'd like to announce discontinuation
> of Mercurial support soon.

FYI, I send an email to mercurial list to talk about this issue [1]. And it
seems that for HTTP connections there is no timeout on the connection.
I'm working to provide to the upstream a solution to be able to
configure a timeout.


[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2018-September/051003.html
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Cédric Krier

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