When touching a lot of repos it's likely you'll get an error or 2.
When you're cloning 163 to make branches, chances are you'll hit an error. And you'll have to start again
e.g.
'git' 'clone' '-q' 'ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/Echo.git' 'Echo'
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
git exit with status 128
It would be useful if in the cases of certain errors (128 for example!) that we pause for a few seconds, then try again. In 99.9% of cases, this second attempt should work fine...
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