Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Here's v5 of the performance tracing patch series, now including a bunch of cleanups and adding timestamp, file and line to all trace output. > > I'm particularly interested in feedback for the output format. As file names have different lengths, printing file:line as prefix results in unaligned output: > > > GIT_TRACE=1 git stash list > 00:12:10.544266 git.c:512 trace: exec: 'git-stash' 'list' > 00:12:10.544266 run-command.c:337 trace: run_command: 'git-stash' 'list' > 00:12:10.649779 git.c:312 trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--git-dir' > > We could add separators to make it easier to parse, e.g.: > > > GIT_TRACE=1 git stash list > [00:12:10.544266 git.c:512] trace: exec: 'git-stash' 'list' > [00:12:10.544266 run-command.c:337] trace: run_command: 'git-stash' 'list' > [00:12:10.649779 git.c:312] trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--git-dir' This is easier to parse if " " and ":" are found in the names of _our_ source files and "]" isn't, but is that really the case? > Or print file:line at the end (but what about multi-line messages, such as packet-trace?): > > > GIT_TRACE=1 git stash list > 00:12:10.544266 trace: exec: 'git-stash' 'list' (git.c:512) Somehow I find this a lot harder to read than the other two. I am not commenting on the usefulness of the patch series (yet), though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html