Hang at commit time when using sftp or bzr+ssh

[Stephen Auyeung]

John,

I suspect the reason connection sharing not working for me is because the master (first) connection lost the reference and get garbage collected some time later while in the same process other connections are in progress. This also explain why it may not hang at the same place every time. Not sure why that works for you though.

Thanks,
Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: John Arbash Meinel [mailto:john at arbash-meinel.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:04 AM
To: stephen at ck12.org
Cc: 'Martin Pool'; bazaar at lists.canonical.com
Subject: Re: Hang at commit time when using sftp or bzr+ssh

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On 12/7/2011 5:22 PM, Stephen AuYeung wrote:
> One suggestion on the ControlMaster setting: Could bzr use the “-S 
> none” option when invoking ssh to disable connection sharing? This 
> way, it will not be depending on client settings.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stephen

*usually* bzr should use connection sharing if someone has set it up, because then we don't have to do the connection handshake for every bzr operation.

I don't know why it isn't working for you, but we really wouldn't want to use -S none ourselves. (I know of at least one person who is using it quite happily.)

One option would be to create a Host entry in your ssh_config file that would be specific to bzr. Something like:

Host bzr-foo
  Hostname real-name.com
  ControlMaster None # or whatever the setting is

And then for bzr instead of doing:

bzr branch bzr+ssh://real-name.com/path

you would do

bzr branch bzr+ssh://bzr-foo/path

John
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