From: Alex Riesen <alexander.riesen@cetitec.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:04:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: option transfer.ipversion to set transport protocol version for network fetches
Message-ID: <20200917080418.GA8079@pflmari>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtuvxwkbz.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano, Wed, Sep 16, 2020 22:14:08 +0200:
> How about introducing a new command line option
> 
> 	--transfer-protocol-family=("any"|<protocol>)
> 
> where <protocol> is either "ipv4" or "ipv6" [*1*], and make existing
> "--ipv4" a synonym for "--transfer-protocol-family=ipv4" and "--ipv6"
> for "--transfer-protocol-family=ipv6"
> 
> With such an extended command line override, we can override
> configured 
> 
> 	[transfer]
> 		ipversion = 6
> 

So the config option starts looking like "transfer.protocols" and multi-value?
With the command-line option named "--transfer-protocol=", allowing multiple
specification, and with "any" value taking precedence if specified anywhere?