Re: [PATCH v1 00/25] RFC: structured logging

From: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Date: Jul 16, 2018, 13:29 UTC
Message-ID: <a8f87adf-3f39-29b9-aef6-9c2e398f117a@jeffhostetler.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1807131150350.20559@nftneq.ynat.uz>

On 7/13/2018 2:51 PM, David Lang wrote:

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> Please make an option for git to write these logs to syslog, not just a 
> local file. Every modern syslog daemon has lots of tools to be able to 
> deal with json messages well.
> 
> David Lang

That is certainly possible and we can easily add it in a later draft, but for now I'd like to stay platform-neutral and just log events to a file.

My main goal right now is to get consensus on the basic structured logging framework -- the shape of the SLOG API, the event message format, and etc.

Thanks, Jeff

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