Re: [PATCH/RFD] fix connection via git protocol

> All of that makes me wonder if we wouldn't be just as happy with it as a
> string in the first place. In three out of four locations that use it,
> they want the string anyway (to feed to getaddrinfo). And in the final
> one (git-daemon), we need to convert from the user's "--port" anyway, so
> there's always some string-to-int parsing. And depending on the #ifdefs,
> in most cases we turn it back into a string anyway to feed to...you
> guessed it, getaddrinfo!
>
> The exception is when NO_IPV6 is defined, in which we do want the
> numeric value. But we could delay parsing until that point (and
> otherwise let getaddrinfo handle, which seems more correct anyway).
>
> Something like this (though I'd probably split it into a few patches to
> reason about the motivation and implications of each):