From: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] git.txt: document GIT_TRACE_PACKET
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 12:53:30 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1370757210-2994-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130609053621.GA1854@sigill.intra.peff.net>
"This can help with debugging object negotiation or other protocol
issues."
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
>> +'GIT_TRACE_PACKET'::
>> + If this variable is set, it shows a trace of all packets
>> + coming in or out of a given program. This can help with
>> + debugging object negotiation or other protocol issues.
>
> This is not quite true. It stops showing packets after it sees a packet
> starting with "PACK" (optionally with a sideband prefix). So you would
> miss, for example, a sideband error that came after the pack had
> started. So it is really only useful for looking at the ref and object
> negotiation phases.
I blindly copied the first paragraph from bbc30f9 (add packet tracing
debug code - 2011-02-24) and missed the "PACK" bit in the second one.
How about this?
Documentation/git.txt | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index c760918..c10b647 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -845,6 +845,12 @@ for further details.
recorded. This may be helpful for troubleshooting some
pack-related performance problems.
+'GIT_TRACE_PACKET'::
+ If this variable is set, it shows a trace of all packets
+ coming in or out of a given program. This can help with
+ debugging object negotiation or other protocol issues. Tracing
+ is turned off at a packet starting with "PACK".
+
GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS::
Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all
pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. For example,
--
1.8.2.83.gc99314b
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-09 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-09 5:22 [PATCH 1/2] core: use env variable instead of config var to turn on logging pack access Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-06-09 5:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] git.txt: document GIT_TRACE_PACKET Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-06-09 5:36 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 5:53 ` Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [this message]
2013-06-09 5:55 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 23:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-09 7:20 ` Eric Sunshine
2013-06-09 7:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] core: use env variable instead of config var to turn on logging pack access Eric Sunshine
2013-06-09 7:18 ` Eric Sunshine
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-05-30 13:51 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-05-30 13:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] git.txt: document GIT_TRACE_PACKET Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
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