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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Alex Riesen <alexander.riesen@cetitec.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: option transfer.ipversion to set transport protocol version for network fetches
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 01:03:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200922050331.GB528837@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200921163901.GB4541@pflmari>

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 06:39:01PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:

> > 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

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-22  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-14 12:19 sub-fetches discard --ipv4|6 option Alex Riesen
2020-09-14 19:49 ` Jeff King
2020-09-15 11:50   ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-15 11:54     ` [PATCH] Pass --ipv4 and --ipv6 options to sub-fetches when fetching multiple remotes and submodules Alex Riesen
2020-09-15 13:06       ` Jeff King
2020-09-16  4:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-16  7:27           ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-15 21:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-16  7:25         ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-15 13:05     ` sub-fetches discard --ipv4|6 option Jeff King
2020-09-15 13:54       ` [PATCH] config: option transfer.ipversion to set transport protocol version for network fetches Alex Riesen
2020-09-16 20:02         ` Jeff King
2020-09-17  8:07           ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-17 13:20           ` [PATCH] Config option to set the " Alex Riesen
2020-09-17 13:26             ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-17 13:31             ` Jeff King
2020-09-17 13:35               ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-17 14:51                 ` Jeff King
2020-09-17 15:17                   ` Alex Riesen
2020-12-22 19:55                     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-07 10:06                       ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-17 16:05             ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-16 20:14         ` [PATCH] config: option transfer.ipversion to set " Junio C Hamano
2020-09-16 20:18           ` Jeff King
2020-09-16 22:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-16 22:52               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-17  0:48                 ` Jeff King
2020-09-17  0:57                   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-16 21:35           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-17 14:02             ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-17 22:31               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18  7:16                 ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-18 16:37                   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-21 16:39                     ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-22  5:03                       ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-09-17  8:04           ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-17  8:18           ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-15 14:06       ` sub-fetches discard --ipv4|6 option Alex Riesen
2020-09-15 15:27         ` Jeff King
2020-09-15 16:03           ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-16 16:32             ` Jeff King
2020-09-17 14:33               ` Alex Riesen
2020-09-22  5:08                 ` Jeff King
2020-09-15 20:09           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-15 21:23             ` Jeff King
2020-09-15 21:32               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-16 16:34                 ` Jeff King
2020-09-16 21:20                   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-14 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano

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