Re: [PATCH 3/3] pkt-line: support tracing verbatim pack contents
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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- Jun 16, 2015, 17:18 UTC
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:14:03PM -0400, Augie Fackler wrote:
> Yeah, not having it for the push side is a slight bummer, but in > general I haven't had problems debugging git clients pushing bogus > data in the same way that I've had problems with weirdness in new > server features.
Being in charge of a large git server farm, I think I have the opposite problem. :)
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> > Here's a rough cut at the "trace stdin" idea I mentioned earlier (which > > is essentially an internal "tee"). You can collect the incoming pack > > like: > > Neat, but not sure I like the extra overhead of having to grab the > full trace and then reconstruct some arguments to be able to diagnose > the pack. Having the verbatim pack just land on disk is really handy, > because then any existing tools one has cooked up (my team has a few > weird one-off ones by now) just work without extra fussing or looking > up steps to reconstruct the whole file.
I guess there is really room for both. Just because you _can_ accomplish the same thing with both does not mean we cannot have two ways to do it (an easy way, and a harder, more flexible way).
-Peff