Merge branch 'ls/p4-retry-thrice'

* ls/p4-retry-thrice:
  git-p4: add config to retry p4 commands; retry 3 times by default

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
index ce40b9a547..bae862ddcb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
@@ -476,6 +476,10 @@ git-p4.client::
 	Client specified as an option to all p4 commands, with
 	'-c <client>', including the client spec.
 
+git-p4.retries::
+	Specifies the number of times to retry a p4 command (notably,
+	'p4 sync') if the network times out. The default value is 3.
+
 Clone and sync variables
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 git-p4.syncFromOrigin::
diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index 1d4bfe64e2..13bf44768b 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ def p4_build_cmd(cmd):
     if len(client) > 0:
         real_cmd += ["-c", client]
 
+    retries = gitConfigInt("git-p4.retries")
+    if retries is None:
+        # Perform 3 retries by default
+        retries = 3
+    real_cmd += ["-r", str(retries)]
 
     if isinstance(cmd,basestring):
         real_cmd = ' '.join(real_cmd) + ' ' + cmd