Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2021, #06; Thu, 17)

From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2021, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <YNZW/zsk93Oi/8uY@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr1h1mc81.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:55:26AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * es/trace2-log-parent-process-name (2021-06-09) 1 commit
>  - tr2: log parent process name
> 
>  trace2 logs learned to show parent process name to see in what
>  context Git was invoked.
> 
>  Will merge to 'next'?

I've still not seen much in the way of reviews on this series; mostly Randall and I have been talking about ramifications for NonStop, but those conversations haven't resulted in changes to the series itself. I think it's fine to merge, but I wrote it, so you shouldn't trust my opinion. :)

We've been running this series internally at Google, though, and it looks like we do want to look up more ancestors than just the one generation, after all. However, I'd prefer to send that as a follow-on patch, compared stalling this topic further.

We do have some early insights from these, though. One interesting observation is that it appears Git is more often invoked via some wrapper than interactively; that's not too surprising given that we have a lot of builders who perform Git operations.

Anyway, all this to say that we've found this trace useful at Google and it's working well for us. Anybody interested in a speedy review would be very welcome.

 - Emily