SZEDER GáborThe current wording of the description of GIT_TRACE=/path/to/file ("... will try to write the trace messages into it") might be misunderstood as "overwriting"; at least I interpreted it that way on a cursory first read.
State it more explicitly that the trace messages are appended.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> --- Documentation/git.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index dba7f0c18e..74a9d7edb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -599,8 +599,8 @@ trace messages into this file descriptor. + Alternatively, if the variable is set to an absolute path (starting with a '/' character), Git will interpret this -as a file path and will try to write the trace messages -into it. +as a file path and will try to append the trace messages +to it. + Unsetting the variable, or setting it to empty, "0" or "false" (case insensitive) disables trace messages.
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