Process first branch status request before spawning threads.

git_cl.py

Index: git_cl.py
diff --git a/git_cl.py b/git_cl.py
index 1a1c64847f26c098dd292278249108de56e42980..32862686c0370439ef67371c910b551095f29f8b 100755
--- a/git_cl.py
+++ b/git_cl.py
@@ -1255,7 +1255,17 @@ def CMDstatus(parser, args):
         color = Fore.BLUE
       output.put((b, i, color))
 
-    threads = [threading.Thread(target=fetch, args=(b,)) for b in branches]
+    # Process one branch synchronously to work through authentication, then
+    # spawn threads to process all the other branches in parallel.
+    first_branch = True
+    threads = []
+    for b in branches:
+      if first_branch:
+        fetch(b)
+        first_branch = False
+      else:
+        threads.append(threading.Thread(target=fetch, args=(b,)))

[iannucci, 2014/03/26 23:34:26]

why not

if branches:
  fetch(branches[0])
  threads = [threading.Thread(target=fetch, args=(b,) for b in branches[1:]]

?

[Jason Robbins -- corp, 2014/03/26 23:43:07]

I had it that way until I realized that branches is a dictionary.   

If you like, I could go back to that by putting the list of the dictionary keys
in a new variable.  The variable naming seems awkward because the branches is
{branch: branch_url, ...}, sigh.

+
     for t in threads:
       t.daemon = True
       t.start()