Smit Barmase 5f624dbe96 git: Fix operations timing out and commit-msg hook being skipped (#61185)
Closes #44926
Closes #43157
Closes #29903

We have an askpass 17s timeout that races against Git operations and
results in "Connecting to host timed out". It came along in #25953 when
we extracted askpass out of remoting, where it was used for SSH.

I think, for SSH connection, no prompt and no connection after 17
seconds means the host is unreachable, so the timeout is a reliable
signal there. But for Git, silence is pretty normal. Cases like hook
running, pack transferring, an ssh-agent waiting on a fingerprint are
all senarios where we should not be dependent on timeout which kills
these healthy operations.

#43285 worked around this for commits by running the pre-commit hook
manually and passing `--no-verify` to `git commit`. But, there are more
problems to address, which I reproduced on my machine:

1. A slow `post-commit` hook fails, since `--no-verify` doesn't skip it.
2. A slow `pre-push` hook fails too, and a workaround like #43285 needs
a lot more handling. See
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/42946#issuecomment-3550570438.
3. This is the tough one: due to `--no-verify`, we are also skipping the
`commit-msg` hook. There is no direct way to call that hook since, Git
hands this hook its in-progress message file, commits whatever the hook
leaves in it, and aborts if the hook exits non-zero. Reproducing that
outside `git commit` means reimplementing that.
4. An ssh-agent waiting for user approval fails after the timeout, like
if you have 1Password set up.
5. It doesn't solve large fetches. Fetching
`git@github.com:torvalds/linux.git` just dies at the 17s timeout
mid-download.

This PR fix keep the timeout only on the SSH transport and drop it for
Git, which is less of a behavior change and more of a restoring its
original scope. If Git in a terminal doesn't time out, we shouldn't
either. This way, we let Git handle all types of hooks, which solves the
hooks issue along with the timeout issue. _This follows how VS Code does
it. It does not have any kind of timeout on git child process, and hooks
are handled by Git itself._

Edit: I also think working towards way to cancel long going operations
is better way forward. See
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/171353.

Hooks still don't run for untrusted repositories, the existing
`core.hooksPath=/dev/null` clamp covers that. The `RunGitHook` proto
handler is kept for compatibility with older remote clients.




Release Notes:

- Fixed git operations failing with a misleading "Connecting to host
timed out" error when they took longer than 17 seconds (large fetches,
slow hooks, or waiting on agent-based authentication like 1Password
Touch ID).
- Fixed `commit-msg` hooks being silently skipped on commit.
2026-07-17 13:38:09 +00:00
2026-01-22 23:57:26 +05:30
WIP
2023-12-14 09:25:14 -07:00
2026-04-29 10:27:47 +00:00
2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
2025-10-27 13:27:59 -04:00
2026-06-27 15:06:29 +00:00
2025-10-17 18:58:14 +00:00
2026-03-17 16:34:35 +00:00
2026-04-29 10:27:47 +00:00

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