Edward Thomson

> I'm wondering why this issue is closed. It's not. 

No problem! Sorry this is such a thorny problem. There's been some work started in libgit2 to address it.

I wholeheartedly support @petersalomonsen's position. libgit2's language bindings should be layers on top of libgit2 - their purpose should be to provide a reasonable, idiomatic language representation of libgit2. Functionality...

> Edward, if you don't mind me asking: that PR seems rather old and inactive, why do you think this will land by EOY? That's a good question. 😁 That...

Can you provide some sample code that shows how you're calling `RetrieveStatus` and how you're calling `Reset` that causes this behavior?

Yes, I can reproduce this, but I won't have any time to investigate in the immediate future.

We added timeouts! Closing this as stale.

Oops, going through old issues and didn't realize that this was still open. Fixed via #6369

Since I don't fully understand the rationale here, I'm going to close this. Happy to reconsider if I'm able to understand it better in the future. 🙏

Fixed via #6387 - thanks again!