Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] http-fetch: allow custom index-pack args

> diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
> index 4deb4893f5..9fa17b60e4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
> @@ -41,11 +41,17 @@ commit-id::
>  		<commit-id>['\t'<filename-as-in--w>]
>  
>  --packfile=<hash>::
> -	Instead of a commit id on the command line (which is not expected in
> +	For internal use only. Instead of a commit id on the command
> +	line (which is not expected in
>  	this case), 'git http-fetch' fetches the packfile directly at the given
>  	URL and uses index-pack to generate corresponding .idx and .keep files.
>  	The hash is used to determine the name of the temporary file and is
> -	arbitrary. The output of index-pack is printed to stdout.
> +	arbitrary. The output of index-pack is printed to stdout. Requires
> +	--index-pack-args.
> +
> +--index-pack-args=<args>::
> +	For internal use only. The command to run on the contents of the
> +	downloaded pack. Arguments are URL-encoded separated by spaces.
>  
>  --recover::
>  	Verify that everything reachable from target is fetched.  Used after
> diff --git a/fetch-pack.c b/fetch-pack.c
> index 876f90c759..aeac010b0b 100644
> --- a/fetch-pack.c
> +++ b/fetch-pack.c
> @@ -1645,6 +1645,9 @@ static struct ref *do_fetch_pack_v2(struct fetch_pack_args *args,
>  		strvec_pushf(&cmd.args, "--packfile=%.*s",
>  			     (int) the_hash_algo->hexsz,
>  			     packfile_uris.items[i].string);
> +		strvec_push(&cmd.args, "--index-pack-arg=index-pack");
> +		strvec_push(&cmd.args, "--index-pack-arg=--stdin");
> +		strvec_push(&cmd.args, "--index-pack-arg=--keep");