From 323598387d900263c4980b43b8a96c43cdd7b6c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:23:20 -0400 Subject: pkt-line: support tracing verbatim pack contents When debugging the pack protocol, it is sometimes useful to store the verbatim pack that we sent or received on the wire. Looking at the on-disk result is often not helpful for a few reasons: 1. If the operation is a clone, we destroy the repo on failure, leaving nothing on disk. 2. If the pack is small, we unpack it immediately, and the full pack never hits the disk. 3. If we feed the pack to "index-pack --fix-thin", the resulting pack has the extra delta bases added to it. We already have a GIT_TRACE_PACKET mechanism for tracing packets. Let's extend it with GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE to dump the verbatim packfile. There are a few other positive fallouts that come from rearranging this code: - We currently disable the packet trace after seeing the PACK header, even though we may get human-readable lines on other sidebands; now we include them in the trace. - We currently try to print "PACK ..." in the trace to indicate that the packfile has started. But because we disable packet tracing, we never printed this line. We will now do so. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git.txt | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 45b64a7140..345366937d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -1000,9 +1000,20 @@ Unsetting the variable, or setting it to empty, "0" or Enables trace messages for all packets coming in or out of a given program. This can help with debugging object negotiation or other protocol issues. Tracing is turned off at a packet - starting with "PACK". + starting with "PACK" (but see 'GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE' below). See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options. +'GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE':: + Enables tracing of packfiles sent or received by a + given program. Unlike other trace output, this trace is + verbatim: no headers, and no quoting of binary data. You almost + certainly want to direct into a file (e.g., + `GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE=/tmp/my.pack`) rather than displaying it on + the terminal or mixing it with other trace output. ++ +Note that this is currently only implemented for the client side +of clones and fetches. + 'GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE':: Enables performance related trace messages, e.g. total execution time of each Git command. -- cgit v1.2.3