repo.walk in thread hangs the main thread

When calling repo.walk in a new thread, it blocks the main thread until it finished!!!

See the example code below, when run with a huge repo (qt5, chromium e.g.), the main thread won't print any message until the repo.walk ended. (Use iter also the same)

It seems that repo.diff also have the problem.

from pygit2 import Repository, GIT_SORT_TOPOLOGICAL
from threading import Thread

import sys
import time


def thread_func(repo_dir):
    repo = Repository(repo_dir)

    print(">>>>>>>> begin diff")
    commits = list(repo.walk(repo.head.target, GIT_SORT_TOPOLOGICAL))
    #for commit in repo.walk(repo.head.target, GIT_SORT_TOPOLOGICAL):
    #    continue
    print(">>>>>>>> end diff")


def test(repo_dir):
    t = Thread(target=thread_func, args=[repo_dir])
    t.start()

    while t.is_alive():
        print("main thread...")
        time.sleep(0.01)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        print(">>>>>>>> Invalid argument")
        sys.exit(-1)

    test(sys.argv[1])

Inizia con il riproduttore Python fornito e analizza le implementazioni di repo.walk, del relativo iteratore e di repo.diff per quanto riguarda il comportamento dei thread. Verifica se il thread principale rimane reattivo mentre il worker elabora un repository di grandi dimensioni, quindi aggiungi una copertura di regressione che dimostri il comportamento previsto.