Automatically use SSH control master support during sync

By creating a background ssh "control master" process which lives
for the duration of our sync cycle we can easily cut the time for
a no-op sync of 132 projects from 60s to 18s.

Bug: REPO-11
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <sop@google.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/project.py b/project.py
index fd3f0b8d..304480a8 100644
--- a/project.py
+++ b/project.py
@@ -969,11 +969,19 @@ class Project(object):
   def _RemoteFetch(self, name=None):
     if not name:
       name = self.remote.name
+
+    ssh_proxy = False
+    if self.GetRemote(name).PreConnectFetch():
+      ssh_proxy = True
+
     cmd = ['fetch']
     if not self.worktree:
       cmd.append('--update-head-ok')
     cmd.append(name)
-    return GitCommand(self, cmd, bare = True).Wait() == 0
+    return GitCommand(self,
+                      cmd,
+                      bare = True,
+                      ssh_proxy = ssh_proxy).Wait() == 0
 
   def _Checkout(self, rev, quiet=False):
     cmd = ['checkout']