From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 02:41:26 GMT
Subject: Re: git gui: Possible to see which commands are executed?
Message-ID: <20080521024126.GI29038@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3aoc8xtg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Ah, I didn't realise git-gui does stuff that you can't really do
> >> through the regular porcelain. In that case it would indeed be
> >> impossible to print the regular porcelain commands. I think the
> >> '--trace' option should be advertised as 'debugging option' so that
> >> the user can see what is going on in the case something goes wrong
> >> perhaps?
> 
> Probably --trace should be renamed to --debug then?

Well, we do have GIT_TRACE, and git-gui --trace is sort of the
same idea.  :-)

I was going to call it --debug, but went with --trace as it is
closer to GIT_TRACE than it is to say git-describe --debug.

-- 
Shawn.