Re: b4 review update issue with bad connectivity

Mark Brown <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:59:59 +0100

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On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 05:43:23PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 06:50:49PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > When operating with poor connectivity I'm finding that b4 review's
> > update functionality can just go off into space non-interruptably for
> > very extended periods of time.  It should be possible to cancel network
> > operations to get back to doing local only operations, at the minute I
> > find myself killing b4.

> Yes, that's something that was long overdue. I've pushed updates to both
> liblore and b4 in master -- note that you'll need to update liblore to 0.8.0+
> for it to do the right thing, but the latest master should let you do Esc to
> interrupt network lookups.

> Try it out and let me know if it's working or not.

The top commit I'm seeing on b4 ATM is 09a97c02bc0b ("review: editors:
optionally mark skipped lines on plain deletes") - did you forget to
push?

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