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From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx•net>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] git --trace: trace command execution
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:51:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FuU5a-0000u3-Bc@moooo.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3bdtv4h3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

> Interesting.  Debugging one's alias entries would be helped with
> this I would imagine, and for that you would want something like
> this:
> 
> > Example:
> > % git showtag v1.4.1-rc1 > /dev/null
> > trace: exec: /home/matled/local/stow/git/bin/git-showtag v1.4.1-rc1
> > trace: exec failed: No such file or directory
> * trace: expanded alias "showtag" => "cat-file tag"
That's a good idea, I'll integrate that.

> By the way "git cat-file -p" or "git verify-tag -v" might be
> more pleasant to view a tag since they make the tagger timestamp
> human readable.
Ok, yesterday I was searching for something to see the annotation of a
tag. verify-tag -v looks quite much like that, is there any other way
to read this? Or in general: how do I work with tags? I want to build
a version tagged as v1.2 so currently I'll do
> git checkout -b 1.2 v1.2
and built it. But then I've to type the version number twice (typing
it once is annoying enough :)) and I've to type it once more to get
the tag annotation.

> Might be worth reusing quote.c::sq_quote(), perhaps?
Oh, sure, did not know about this. This would result in a loop of
malloc'ing memory for the buffer. Is this ok? Or should I add a
function like sq_quote which takes a stream and writes to it?

So for the --trace part I think an environment variable GIT_TRACE is
more suitable for this because children inherit this. So running git
status will show what internal commands the shell script uses.
Otherwise I see no way to pass the --trace option down because an
extern program like git-status, git-annotate etc will not accept
parameters which can be passed to `git'.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-25 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-25 10:57 [RFC] git --trace: trace command execution Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-25 11:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-25 12:51   ` Matthias Lederhofer [this message]
2006-06-25 13:56   ` [PATCH] GIT_TRACE: show which built-in/external commands are executed Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-25 14:11     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-25 14:22       ` Petr Baudis
2006-06-25 16:10       ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-25 23:30         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-28 18:22           ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-29 18:06   ` [RFC] git --trace: trace command execution Jakub Narebski

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