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2020-11-24usage: add trace2 entry upon warning()Libravatar Jonathan Tan1-1/+1
Emit a trace2 error event whenever warning() is called, just like when die(), error(), or usage() is called. This helps debugging issues that would trigger warnings but not errors. In particular, this might have helped debugging an issue I encountered with commit graphs at $DAYJOB [1]. There is a tradeoff between including potentially relevant messages and cluttering up the trace output produced. I think that warning() messages should be included in traces, because by its nature, Git is used over multiple invocations of the Git tool, and a failure (currently traced) in a Git invocation might be caused by an unexpected interaction in a previous Git invocation that only has a warning (currently untraced) as a symptom - as is the case in [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200629220744.1054093-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-23trace2: teach Git to log environment variablesLibravatar Josh Steadmon1-1/+2
Via trace2, Git can already log interesting config parameters (see the trace2_cmd_list_config() function). However, this can grant an incomplete picture because many config parameters also allow overrides via environment variables. To allow for more complete logs, we add a new trace2_cmd_list_env_vars() function and supporting implementation, modeled after the pre-existing config param logging implementation. Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Acked-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-16Merge branch 'hw/doc-in-header'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-234/+9
* hw/doc-in-header: trace2: move doc to trace2.h submodule-config: move doc to submodule-config.h tree-walk: move doc to tree-walk.h trace: move doc to trace.h run-command: move doc to run-command.h parse-options: add link to doc file in parse-options.h credential: move doc to credential.h argv-array: move doc to argv-array.h cache: move doc to cache.h sigchain: move doc to sigchain.h pathspec: move doc to pathspec.h revision: move doc to revision.h attr: move doc to attr.h refs: move doc to refs.h remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.h sha1-array: move doc to sha1-array.h merge: move doc to ll-merge.h graph: move doc to graph.h and graph.c dir: move doc to dir.h diff: move doc to diff.h and diffcore.h
2019-11-18trace2: move doc to trace2.hLibravatar Heba Waly1-234/+9
Move the functions documentation from Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt to trace2.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Only the functions documentation section is removed from Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt as the file is full of details that seemed more appropriate to be in a separate doc file as it is, with a link to the doc file added in the trace2.h. Also the functions doc is removed to avoid having redundandt info which will be hard to keep syncronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-07Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and newLibravatar Elijah Newren1-7/+7
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-05trace2: write discard message to sentinel filesLibravatar Josh Steadmon1-2/+14
Add a new "discard" event type for trace2 event destinations. When the trace2 file count check creates a sentinel file, it will include the normal trace2 output in the sentinel, along with this new discard event. Writing this message into the sentinel file is useful for tracking how often the file count check triggers in practice. Bump up the event format version since we've added a new event type. Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-04docs: clarify trace2 version invariantsLibravatar Josh Steadmon1-1/+7
Make it explicit that we always want trace2 "version" events to be the first event of any trace session. Also list the changes that would or would not cause the EVENT format version field to be incremented. Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-04docs: mention trace2 target-dir mode in git-configLibravatar Josh Steadmon1-4/+3
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>
2019-07-19Merge branch 'js/trace2-signo-typofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Documentation fix. * js/trace2-signo-typofix: trace2: correct trace2 field name documentation
2019-07-09trace2: correct trace2 field name documentationLibravatar Josh Steadmon1-1/+1
Correct the api-trace2 documentation, which lists "signal" as an expected field for the signal event type, but which actually outputs "signo" as the field name. Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-27trace2: correct typo in technical documentationLibravatar Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón1-1/+1
an apparent typo for the environment variable was included with 81567caf87 ("trace2: update docs to describe system/global config settings", 2019-04-15), and was missed when renamed variables by e4b75d6a1d ("trace2: rename environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*", 2019-05-19) Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28trace2: rename environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*Libravatar SZEDER Gábor1-23/+23
For an environment variable that is supposed to be set by users, the GIT_TR2* env vars are just too unclear, inconsistent, and ugly. Most of the established GIT_* environment variables don't use abbreviations, and in case of the few that do (GIT_DIR, GIT_COMMON_DIR, GIT_DIFF_OPTS) it's quite obvious what the abbreviations (DIR and OPTS) stand for. But what does TR stand for? Track, traditional, trailer, transaction, transfer, transformation, transition, translation, transplant, transport, traversal, tree, trigger, truncate, trust, or ...?! The trace2 facility, as the '2' suffix in its name suggests, is supposed to eventually supercede Git's original trace facility. It's reasonable to expect that the corresponding environment variables follow suit, and after the original GIT_TRACE variables they are called GIT_TRACE2; there is no such thing is 'GIT_TR'. All trace2-specific config variables are, very sensibly, in the 'trace2' section, not in 'tr2'. OTOH, we don't gain anything at all by omitting the last three characters of "trace" from the names of these environment variables. So let's rename all GIT_TR2* environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*, before they make their way into a stable release. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-13Merge branch 'jh/trace2-sid-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-80/+104
Polishing of the new trace2 facility continues. The system-level configuration can specify site-wide trace2 settings, which can be overridden with per-user configuration and environment variables. * jh/trace2-sid-fix: trace2: fixup access problem on /etc/gitconfig in read_very_early_config trace2: update docs to describe system/global config settings trace2: make SIDs more unique trace2: clarify UTC datetime formatting trace2: report peak memory usage of the process trace2: use system/global config for default trace2 settings config: add read_very_early_config() trace2: find exec-dir before trace2 initialization trace2: add absolute elapsed time to start event trace2: refactor setting process starting time config: initialize opts structure in repo_read_config()
2019-04-16trace2: update docs to describe system/global config settingsLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-67/+84
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-16trace2: make SIDs more uniqueLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-8/+8
Update SID component construction to use the current UTC datetime and a portion of the SHA1 of the hostname. Use an simplified date/time format to make it easier to use the SID component as a logfile filename. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-16trace2: clarify UTC datetime formattingLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-6/+6
Update tr2_tbuf_utc_datetime to generate extended UTC format. Update tr2_tgt_event target to use extended format in 'time' columns. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-16trace2: add absolute elapsed time to start eventLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-5/+6
Add elapsed process time to "start" event to measure the performance of early process startup. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-16trace2: refactor setting process starting timeLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-3/+9
Create trace2_initialize_clock() and call from main() to capture process start time in isolation and before other sub-systems are ready. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-22trace2: write to directory targetsLibravatar Josh Steadmon1-0/+5
When the value of a trace2 environment variable is an absolute path referring to an existing directory, write output to files (one per process) underneath the given directory. Files will be named according to the final component of the trace2 SID, followed by a counter to avoid potential collisions. This makes it more convenient to collect traces for every git invocation by unconditionally setting the relevant trace2 envvar to a constant directory name. Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-22trace2: Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txtLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-0/+1349
Created design document for Trace2 feature. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>