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+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ yields
------------
$ cat ~/log.event
-{"event":"version","sid":"sid":"20190408T191610.507018Z-H9b68c35f-P000059a8","thread":"main","time":"2019-01-16T17:28:42.620713Z","file":"common-main.c","line":38,"evt":"1","exe":"2.20.1.155.g426c96fcdb"}
+{"event":"version","sid":"sid":"20190408T191610.507018Z-H9b68c35f-P000059a8","thread":"main","time":"2019-01-16T17:28:42.620713Z","file":"common-main.c","line":38,"evt":"2","exe":"2.20.1.155.g426c96fcdb"}
{"event":"start","sid":"20190408T191610.507018Z-H9b68c35f-P000059a8","thread":"main","time":"2019-01-16T17:28:42.621027Z","file":"common-main.c","line":39,"t_abs":0.001173,"argv":["git","version"]}
{"event":"cmd_name","sid":"20190408T191610.507018Z-H9b68c35f-P000059a8","thread":"main","time":"2019-01-16T17:28:42.621122Z","file":"git.c","line":432,"name":"version","hierarchy":"version"}
{"event":"exit","sid":"20190408T191610.507018Z-H9b68c35f-P000059a8","thread":"main","time":"2019-01-16T17:28:42.621236Z","file":"git.c","line":662,"t_abs":0.001227,"code":0}
@@ -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
@@ -605,17 +604,35 @@ only present on the "start" and "atexit" events.
==== Event-Specific Key/Value Pairs
`"version"`::
- This event gives the version of the executable and the EVENT format.
+ This event gives the version of the executable and the EVENT format. It
+ should always be the first event in a trace session. The EVENT format
+ version will be incremented if new event types are added, if existing
+ fields are removed, or if there are significant changes in
+ interpretation of existing events or fields. Smaller changes, such as
+ adding a new field to an existing event, will not require an increment
+ to the EVENT format version.
+
------------
{
"event":"version",
...
- "evt":"1", # EVENT format version
+ "evt":"2", # EVENT format version
"exe":"2.20.1.155.g426c96fcdb" # git version
}
------------
+`"discard"`::
+ This event is written to the git-trace2-discard sentinel file if there
+ are too many files in the target trace directory (see the
+ trace2.maxFiles config option).
++
+------------
+{
+ "event":"discard",
+ ...
+}
+------------
+
`"start"`::
This event contains the complete argv received by main().
+