Re: [PATCH] tr2: log parent process name

> It can be useful to tell who invoked Git - was it invoked manually by a
> user via CLI or script? By an IDE? Knowing where the Git invocation came
> from can help with debugging to isolate where the problem came from.
> 
> Unfortunately, there's no cross-platform reliable way to gather the name
> of the parent process. If procfs is present, we can use that; otherwise
> we will need to discover the name another way. However, the process ID
> should be sufficient regardless of platform.

> Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
> ---
> We briefly discussed hiding this behind a config, internally. However, I
> wanted to include the parent name alongside the cmd_start event, which
> happens very early (maybe before config gathering?).
> 
> Maybe it's better to log the parent_name as its own event, since it
> shouldn't change over the lifetime of the process?
> 
> procfs is very non-portable, though - I think this won't even work on
> MacOS. So I'm curious if anybody has better suggestions for how to do
> this.