Re: [PATCH v2] Add unix domain socket support to HTTP transport

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> "Leslie Cheng via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add unix domain socket support to HTTP transport
>
> Perhaps
>
> 	Subject: [PATCH] http: enable proxying via unix-domain socket
>
> to follow the usual "<area>: <description>" format?
>
>> From: Leslie Cheng <leslie.cheng5@gmail.com>
>>
>> This changeset introduces an `http.unixSocket` option so that users can
>
> "This changeset introduces" -> "Introduce".  There may be other
> gotchas that might use help from Documentation/SubmittingPatches,
> but I didn't read too carefully.
>
> Besides, it is a single patch, not a set of changes ;-).
>
> `http.unixSocket` is a configuration variable.  It may be confusing
> to use the word "option".  Speaking of options, shouldn't there be a
> command line option that overrides the configured value?
>
> We should honor the usual http.<url>.VARIABLE convention where
> http.<url>.VARIABLE that is destination-specific overrides a more
> generic http.VARIABLE configuration variable.

Clarification.  I know the above is automatically achieved, given
the way we have laid urlmatch foundation to allow easy parsing for
configuration variables structured this way.  I did not mean that
you'd need to do anything special; rather, I meant that we should
advertise that we do in the commit log message.