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[PATCH/RFC 0/8] refactor trace code

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 24, 2011, 14:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20110224142308.GA15356@sigill.intra.peff.net>
A few weeks ago in:
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165496

we discussed the possibility of removing the repo setup trace lines. I mentioned that I had also recently done some debug code that would not be appropriate to show all the time with GIT_TRACE. So here is a series that jumbles it all together: refactors the trace code to handle multiple environment variables, adds packet-tracing code on its own variable, and puts the repo setup traces on their own variable.

With this, you can do:
  GIT_TRACE=1 \
  GIT_TRACE_PACKET=/tmp/packet.dump \
  GIT_TRACE_SETUP=0 \
  git whatever

There may be a few other places where it is worth either pushing some traces to their variable (I think the notes merge code has some debugging traces in it), or places where existing debugging code could be enabled (e.g., there is some diffcore debugging code that I sometimes turn on; it is not even compiled by default, but this would give a nice way of pushing that decision to runtime).

I have mixed feelings on adding a bunch of debugging code. On the one hand, it's mostly dead code that nobody runs. On the other hand, it is sometimes really helpful to be able to tell a user "run with this environment variable and tell us what it says" without having to get them to apply a custom patch.

  [1/8]: compat: provide a fallback va_copy definition
  [2/8]: strbuf: add strbuf_addv
  [3/8]: trace: add trace_vprintf
  [4/8]: trace: refactor to support multiple env variables
  [5/8]: trace: factor out "do we want to trace" logic
  [6/8]: trace: add trace_strbuf
  [7/8]: add packet tracing debug code
  [8/8]: trace: give repo_setup trace its own key
-Peff
Next: Jeff King
Message 1 of 32 in “refactor trace code”
  1. 0/8 refactor trace codeJeff King, Feb 24, 2011
  2. 1/8 compat: provide a fallback va_copy definitionJeff King, Feb 24, 2011
  3. Erik Faye-LundFeb 24, 2011
  4. compat: fall back on __va_copy if availableJonathan Nieder, Mar 8, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2011
  6. Jonathan NiederMar 8, 2011
  7. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  8. 2/8 strbuf: add strbuf_addvJeff King, Feb 24, 2011
  9. Christian CouderFeb 24, 2011
  10. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2011
  11. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  12. 3/8 trace: add trace_vprintfJeff King, Feb 24, 2011
  13. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  14. 4/8 trace: refactor to support multiple env variablesJeff King, Feb 24, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2011
  16. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2011
  17. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2011
  18. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2011
  20. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  21. 5/8 trace: factor out "do we want to trace" logicJeff King, Feb 24, 2011
  22. Christian CouderFeb 24, 2011
  23. 6/8 trace: add trace_strbufJeff King, Feb 24, 2011
  24. 7/8 add packet tracing debug codeJeff King, Feb 24, 2011
  25. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  26. 8/8 trace: give repo_setup trace its own keyJeff King, Feb 24, 2011
  27. Andreas EricssonFeb 24, 2011
  28. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2011
  29. Christian CouderFeb 24, 2011
  30. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
  31. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 25, 2011
  32. Junio C HamanoFeb 26, 2011

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