On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c > index 67d001f3f78b..41498e9efb3b 100644 > --- a/builtin/fetch.c > +++ b/builtin/fetch.c > @@ -114,6 +114,20 @@ static int git_fetch_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb) > return git_default_config(k, v, cb); > } > > +static int parse_jobs_arg(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset) > +{ > + int jobs; > + > + jobs = atoi(arg); > + if (jobs < 1) > + die(_("There must be a positive number of jobs")); > + > + max_children_for_submodules = jobs; > + max_children_for_fetch = jobs; > + > + return 0; > +} > + > static int parse_refmap_arg(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset) > { > BUG_ON_OPT_NEG(unset); > @@ -142,12 +156,13 @@ static struct option builtin_fetch_options[] = { > N_("fetch all tags and associated objects"), TAGS_SET), > OPT_SET_INT('n', NULL, &tags, > N_("do not fetch all tags (--no-tags)"), TAGS_UNSET), > - OPT_INTEGER('j', "jobs", &max_children_for_submodules, > + { OPTION_CALLBACK, 'j', "jobs", NULL, N_("jobs"), > + N_("number of parallel tasks to run while fetching"), > + PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, &parse_jobs_arg }, These changes result segmentation faults in the tests '--quiet propagates to parallel submodules' and 'fetching submodules respects parallel settings' in 't5526-fetch-submodules.sh'. If the number of jobs is specified as '-j 2' or '--jobs 7', i.e. as an unstuck argument of the option, as opposed to '-j2' or '--jobs=7', then 'arg' in the parse_jobs_arg() callback is NULL, which then causes the segfault somewhere inside that atoi() call.