On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:26:06AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > > +'GIT_TRACE_CURL':: > > + Enables a curl full trace dump of all incoming and outgoing data, > > + including descriptive information, of the git transport protocol. > > + This is similar to doing curl --trace-ascii on the command line. > > + This option overrides setting the GIT_CURL_VERBOSE environment > > + variable. > > How does it overwrite the GIT_CURL_VERBOSE variable? You can't use both, as they are both triggered using the CURLOPT_VERBOSE option of curl. The main difference is that with GIT_CURL_VERBOSE, we rely on curl to print the information to stderr. With GIT_CURL_TRACE, we do the printing ourselves (so we can tweak the output format, send it to places other than stderr, etc). > After a quick `grep -r GIT_CURL_VERBOSE`, I notice 2 things: > > * apparently GIT_CURL_VERBOSE is used as a boolean, > so I presume we assume True for GIT_CURL_VERBOSE, but > extend it? It's not a boolean. If the variable exists at all, we turn on verbose output (so I guess you can consider it a boolean, but we do not parse its contents as boolean; GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=false does not do what you might think). > * GIT_CURL_VERBOSE is not documented at all. (It is mentioned in > the release notes for 2.3.0, not sure if that counts as documentation) > As you know the area, care to send a documentation patch for > GIT_CURL_VERBOSE? I think there is no need for GIT_CURL_VERBOSE once we have GIT_TRACE_CURL. The latter is more flexible and matches the GIT_TRACE_* interface we use elsewhere. So I think we should consider GIT_CURL_VERBOSE deprecated (though I do not mind keeping it for old-timers since it is literally one line of code). -Peff -- 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