From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:17:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pass --ipv4 and --ipv6 options to sub-fetches when fetching multiple remotes and submodules
Message-ID: <xmqqimcexsm2.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200915130606.GB2839276@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 01:54:07PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
>
>> The options indicate user intent for the whole fetch operation, and
>> ignoring them in sub-fetches is quite unexpected when, for instance,
>> it is intended to limit all of the communication to a specific transport
>> protocol for some reason.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <alexander.riesen@cetitec.com>
>> ---
>
> Regardless of whether we move forward with the parse-options flag or
> config discussed in the other thread, I think this is an obvious
> improvement that we should take in the meantime.

Yes.  Others can wait.  ipversion configuration variable is probably
easier to sell; parse_options thing deserves a longer and deeper
thought as it will affect the API future codebase would rely on.

Thanks.