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Beck via GitGitGadget" , git@vger.kernel.org, =?utf-8?Q?Jean-No=C3=ABl?= Avila , "Daniel D. Beck" Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fetch: document `--jobs=0` behavior In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:39:27 +0100") References: Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:59:10 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 07:32:39PM +0000, Daniel D. Beck via GitGitGadget wrote: >> diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.adoc b/Documentation/fetch-options.adoc >> index fcba46ee9e..e15cbc51f2 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.adoc >> +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.adoc >> @@ -234,6 +234,8 @@ endif::git-pull[] >> `--jobs=`:: >> Parallelize all forms of fetching up to __ jobs at a time. >> + >> +A value of 0 will use some reasonable default. > > Can't we do better though than saying "some reasonable default"? As a > user I would wonder what this is even supposed to mean. True, we don't > do so either in the documentation of "fetch.parallel". But arguably, we > should update both sites to reflect the status quo. > > Going into the code we seem to fall back to `online_cpus()`. So should > we document this accordingly? I do not have time to dig this out myself from ancient discussion threads, but we probably had the same discussion when "git config --help" described the fetch.parallel with exactly the same phrasing and decided to leave the exact implementation detail out of the end-user facing documentation. Thanks.