# git-retry(1) Manual Page

## NAME

git-retry - Bootstrap function to retry a git command.

## SYNOPSIS

    git retry [-v] [-c COUNT] [-d DELAY] [-D DELAY_FACTOR] — <git_subcommand>

## DESCRIPTION

`git retry` is a bootstrap that wraps a standard `git` command execution in a fault-tolerant retry wrapper.

If a retry succeeds, the return code of the successful attempt is returned. Otherwise, the return code of the last failed attempt is returned.

The wrapper is aware of `git`-specific failure conditions and will only consider retrying if a given failure can be linked to such a condition.

## OPTIONS

<git_subcommand>

  The `git` command to retry. This should omit the actual `git` command (e.g., to retry `git clone`, use `git retry clone`).

-v, --verbose

  Increases logging verbosity. By default, no additional logging is generated by the `git retry` command. This can be specified multiple times.

-c, --retry-count count

  Specify the number of retries that should be performed before giving up. The default retry count is 5.

-d, --delay seconds

  Floating-point value that specifies the amount of time (in seconds) to wait after a failure. This can be zero to specify no delay. The default delay is 3 seconds.

-D, --delay-factor

  The exponential factor to apply to the delay. By default this is 2. For a given retry round n, the delay for that round will be (<delay-factor>^(n-1) * delay). If no delay is specified, this will have no effect. If the delay factor is 0, the delay will increase linearly (for a given retry round n, the delay will be (n * delay)).

      (Note that a delay factor of *1* will result in a constant delay.)

## EXIT STATUS

Upon success, `git retry` will exit with the successful exit code of 0. On failure, it will exit with the exit code of the last failed attempt.

## CHROMIUM DEPOT_TOOLS

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