Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] trace2: emit cmd_ancestry data for Windows

From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:19:12 +0100

On Thu, Feb 5, 2026, at 17:05, Matthew John Cheetham via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Matthew John Cheetham <[email-masked]>
>
> Since 2f732bf1 (tr2: log parent process name) it is now possible to emit

The usual way to refer to commits is to use `git show -s
--pretty=reference`. (Or maybe with `--abbrev=8` as well
which seems to be the case here.) That also adds the date.
See `SubmittingPatches`.

> a specific process ancestry event in TRACE2. We should emit the Windows
> process ancestry data with the correct event type.
>
> To not break existing consumers of the data_json "windows/ancestry"
> event, we continue to emit the ancestry data as a JSON event.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <[email-masked]>
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