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Re: Error logging for git over ssh?

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
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Jan 15, 2014, 01:51 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Diagnosing errors with git over ssh has historically required tooling
> up for debugging or looking at things from the client side, because
> git does not log anything on the server side.
>
> It would be a boon to those running busy git servers to be able to
> diagnose by looking at a log. It can be both old-fashioned, or very
> modern (if you are using journald).

Maybe we could put a "pager" program in front of stderr and let it does the logging? We'll need to output the error side bands to stderr too in case side-band is used.

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Duy
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