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Re: [PATCH] config: option transfer.ipversion to set transport protocol version for network fetches

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 22, 2020, 05:03 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 06:39:01PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> > By the way, I have a mild preference to call the option after the
> > phrase "protocol-family", without "IP", so that we won't be limited
> > to Internet protocols.  IOW, --ipversions is a bad name for the new
> > commnad line option in my mind.
> 
> I have nothing against protocol-family, with or without "transport-".
> I just didn't want to ... over-generalize it prematurely: currently,
> the transport family is very fixed on IP on many levels.

I'll echo Junio's mild preference. I like it also because "--ipversion=6" feels too terse in the argument, but "--ipversion=ipv6" feels redundant. Saying "--protocol-family=ipv6" is more characters, but strikes me as more clear. (Or "transport-family" or whatever).

-Peff
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  3. Alex RiesenSep 15, 2020
  4. Pass --ipv4 and --ipv6 options to sub-fetches when fetching multiple remotes and submodulesAlex Riesen, Sep 15, 2020
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  22. config: option transfer.ipversion to set transport protocol version for network fetchesAlex Riesen, Sep 15, 2020
  23. Jeff KingSep 16, 2020
  24. Alex RiesenSep 17, 2020
  25. Config option to set the transport protocol version for network fetchesAlex Riesen, Sep 17, 2020
  26. Jeff KingSep 17, 2020
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  28. Jeff KingSep 17, 2020
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  46. Jeff KingSep 22, 2020
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