Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] bitbake: Add task timeout support

[Michal Sieron <michalwsieron@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 25 May 2023 15:57:12 +0300
Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org> wrote:

> git uses curl, can't we shorten the timeouts or even add retries
> there? Maybe even specific ones for the lfs support?
> 
> I've also seen a lot of problematic artifactory and gerrit instances,
> in addition to maven, npm etc...

I checked this and couldn't find any environment variables that would
control timeout for the whole operation.

The only solution I found (which doesn't require patching/recompiling)
was using previously mentioned timeout command like so:

```
FETCHCMD_git = "git \
    -c core.fsyncobjectfiles=0 \
    -c filter.lfs.clean='/usr/bin/timeout 300 git-lfs clean -- %f' \
    -c filter.lfs.smudge='/usr/bin/timeout 300 git-lfs smudge -- %f' \
    -c filter.lfs.process='/usr/bin/timeout 300 git-lfs filter-process' \
"
```

You can of course put those settings in your gitconfig file instead.

However, this method is not so nice, as when the fetch task ends, and
prints error message from git, we get "fatal: the remote end hung up
unexpectedly", which doesn't really explain what went wrong.

Michal