From cdecc43cb8d8873f3da6f21d4232e48d7b56a888 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Viktor Szakats <commit@vsz.me>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:03:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] GHA/curl: drop repeats, allow retries on fail

In an attempt to improve stability / reduce flakiness of these tests.
Especially the ECDSA-enable ones were prone to mass fail.

```
22:49:30.110000 * Failure establishing ssh session: -43, Failed getting banner
```
Ref: https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/actions/runs/38480041149/job/115580107883#step:11:1034

This is a different failure than the long-chased flaky -8 kex failures,
which was fixed earlier and did not reoccur since then.

Follow-up to 5bfa57446028b324430e8e8dedb7ee5838bb3207 #2603
Follow-up to f216bbe3aa5ec02033de53ed0809a2461fc062c7 #2583
Follow-up to bb8e0957b8091e5b6668b2ffe647721f5cc2fb7d #2590

Closes #2666
---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index e5169fee..1f7c18d1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: 6
         run: |
           cd "curl-${CURL_VERNUM}"
-          export TFLAGS='-j8 SCP SFTP --retry=0 --repeat=6'
+          export TFLAGS='-j8 SCP SFTP'
           if [[ "${MATRIX_CRYPTO}" = *'WinCNG'* ]]; then
             export CURL_TEST_SSH_ENABLE_KEX=diffie-hellman-group16-sha512
           fi