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| author |  Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> | 2019-10-03 16:32:56 -0700 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-10-04 09:26:42 +0900 |
| commit | 3d4548e7e29177b6a5e21c73009bc40c63c8ce62 (patch) | |
| tree | 870b7ca3b30414ec3b88c5cb556d88b87a4f762c /Documentation | |
| parent | Fourth batch (diff) | |
| download | tgif-3d4548e7e29177b6a5e21c73009bc40c63c8ce62.tar.xz | |
docs: mention trace2 target-dir mode in git-config
Move the description of trace2's target-directory behavior into the
shared trace2-target-values file so that it is included in both the
git-config and api-trace2 docs. Leave the SID discussion only in
api-trace2 since it's a technical detail.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt index 71eb081fed..80ffceada0 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt @@ -142,10 +142,9 @@ system or global config value to one of the following: include::../trace2-target-values.txt[] -If the target already exists and is a directory, the traces will be -written to files (one per process) underneath the given directory. They -will be named according to the last component of the SID (optionally -followed by a counter to avoid filename collisions). +When trace files are written to a target directory, they will be named according +to the last component of the SID (optionally followed by a counter to avoid +filename collisions). == Trace2 API diff --git a/Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt b/Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt index 27d3c64e66..3985b6d3c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt @@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ * `0` or `false` - Disables the target. * `1` or `true` - Writes to `STDERR`. * `[2-9]` - Writes to the already opened file descriptor. -* `<absolute-pathname>` - Writes to the file in append mode. +* `<absolute-pathname>` - Writes to the file in append mode. If the target +already exists and is a directory, the traces will be written to files (one +per process) underneath the given directory. * `af_unix:[<socket_type>:]<absolute-pathname>` - Write to a Unix DomainSocket (on platforms that support them). Socket type can be either `stream` or `dgram`; if omitted Git will |