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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch: pass --no-write-fetch-head to subprocesses
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 22:09:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZAlOB0XZaGPUJMS7@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230308100438.908471-1-e@80x24.org>

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 10:04:38AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

> It seems a user would expect this option would work regardless
> of whether it's fetching from a single remote or many.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
> ---
>  I haven't checked if there's other suitable options which could
>  go into add_options_to_argv(); hopefully someone else can check :>

There's at least one that came up before:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/DM5PR1701MB1724CCBB1AC5CF342BA9ADD5898E9@DM5PR1701MB1724.namprd17.prod.outlook.com/

but it never got turned into a real patch.

This is obviously an error-prone mechanism.  It would be nice if there
was a way to avoid it, but after some discussion in this thread, we
didn't come up with anything clever:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200914121906.GD4705@pflmari/

-Peff

      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-09  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-08 10:04 [PATCH] fetch: pass --no-write-fetch-head to subprocesses Eric Wong
2023-03-08 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-08 22:22   ` [PATCH v2] " Eric Wong
2023-03-08 23:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-08 23:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-08 23:48         ` Eric Wong
2023-03-09 21:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-09  3:09 ` Jeff King [this message]

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