On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:52 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's not just sampling points. There's things like index id being > > shown in the message for example. I prefer to keep free style format > > to help me read. There's also things like indentation I do here to > > help me read. > > Yup, I do not think that contradicts with the approach to have a > single unified "data collection" API; you should also be able to > specify how that collection of data is to be presented in the trace > messages meant for humans, which would be discarded when emitting > json but would be used when showing human-readble trace, no? Yes. As Peff also pointed out in another mail, as long as this structured logging stuff does not stop me from manual trace messages and don't force more work on me when I add new traces, I don't care if it exists. -- Duy