diff --numstat

diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 49251f9437183e74565c4965fa3d4451d6f29a0d..c55a20a4aa31e7cf1bbf0dcec6b4ebccb655d850 100644 (file)
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -602,9 +602,15 @@ static void git_proxy_connect(int fd[2], char *host)
 #define MAX_CMD_LEN 1024
 
 /*
- * Yeah, yeah, fixme. Need to pass in the heads etc.
+ * This returns 0 if the transport protocol does not need fork(2),
+ * or a process id if it does.  Once done, finish the connection
+ * with finish_connect() with the value returned from this function
+ * (it is safe to call finish_connect() with 0 to support the former
+ * case).
+ *
+ * Does not return a negative value on error; it just dies.
  */
-int git_connect(int fd[2], char *url, const char *prog)
+pid_t git_connect(int fd[2], char *url, const char *prog)
 {
        char *host, *path = url;
        char *end;
@@ -748,6 +754,9 @@ int git_connect(int fd[2], char *url, const char *prog)
 
 int finish_connect(pid_t pid)
 {
+       if (pid == 0)
+               return 0;
+
        while (waitpid(pid, NULL, 0) < 0) {
                if (errno != EINTR)
                        return -1;