Re: git fails updating submodule only if --quiet is specified

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 02:38:34PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Stefan Beller [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

However lookingat your logs, I would suspect it is an error in git
clone instead, as that is the
last command which has the --quiet flag passed through the stack.

git clone --no-checkout --quiet --separate-git-dir tmp_gitdir
git://git.busybox.net/buildroot tmp_workdir
fails as a standalone program as well, so let's debug that.

I think you can simplify this quite a bit to just:

  git clone --quiet git://git.busybox.net/buildroot

That breaks, but works without --quiet. Presumably the problem is on the
server side, as we see the remote end hang up (and using different
versions of git on the client does not seem to help).

It seems to fail consistently for me around 2.4s, which makes me think
we're hitting some kind of timeout. I'd suspect a bug in the keep-alive
code in upload-pack, but that shouldn't have kicked in by then.

I guess the next step is to try to reproduce with a local client/server,
and then bisect the server version.

-Peff