From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:30:39 GMT
Subject: Re: git gui: Possible to see which commands are executed?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805210930150.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080521024126.GI29038@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> Ah, I didn't realise git-gui does stuff that you can't really do
> > >> through the regular porcelain. In that case it would indeed be
> > >> impossible to print the regular porcelain commands. I think the
> > >> '--trace' option should be advertised as 'debugging option' so that
> > >> the user can see what is going on in the case something goes wrong
> > >> perhaps?
> > 
> > Probably --trace should be renamed to --debug then?
> 
> Well, we do have GIT_TRACE, and git-gui --trace is sort of the
> same idea.  :-)

Which brings me to the suggestion to reuse GIT_TRACE instead of adding 
an option...

Ciao,
Dscho