Re: git gui: Possible to see which commands are executed?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: May 20, 2008, 19:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20080520194403.GC29038@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <4833206E.1080300@dirk.my1.cc>

Dirk Ssserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> wrote:

> 
> thanks for your patch. Actually I had problems applying it and
> finally gave up. I'm using the msysGit package which seems quite
> similar to the cygwin package but not in all cases, apparently.

Well, msysGit is perhaps on an older version of git-gui.  But
I had thought they were fairly current and that the section of
code the patch touches hasn't been modified in a while.  Maybe
there was an issue with CRLF?

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> However, you were right. The trace doesn't show the commands I
> would use on a regular basis (I couldn't stop you :-)).
> On the other hand it possibly helps to /understand/ (or at least
> /see/) what's going on under the hood.
> 
> For that reason I'd greatly appreciate seeing your patch in some
> future version of Git. It doesn't do any harm, does it? People
> that don't like it can simply omit the '--trace' switch.
> 
> Junio? The list?

Junio defers almost all git-gui things to me, as I am the current maintainer of git-gui. You are right, it doesn't really hurt to include it, and now that it is written, the hard part is already done. I'll apply it to my main git-gui tree and ask Junio to include it in a future version of Git.

-- 
Shawn.