From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> MSYS2's strace facility is very useful for debugging... With this patch, the bash will be executed through strace if the environment variable GIT_STRACE_COMMANDS is set, which comes in real handy when investigating issues in the test suite. Also support passing a path to a log file via GIT_STRACE_COMMANDS to force Git to call strace.exe with the `-o <path>` argument, i.e. to log into a file rather than print the log directly. That comes in handy when the output would otherwise misinterpreted by a calling process as part of Git's output. Note: the values "1", "yes" or "true" are *not* specifying paths, but tell Git to let strace.exe log directly to the console. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- mingw: help debugging by optionally executing bash with MSYS2's strace This is another patch that has been carried in Git for Windows for some five years. Time to graduate. Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-604%2Fdscho%2Fmsys2-strace-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-604/dscho/msys2-strace-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/604 compat/mingw.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index d14065d60ec..60c0d36764b 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -1479,6 +1479,7 @@ static pid_t mingw_spawnve_fd(const char *cmd, const char **argv, char **deltaen const char *(*quote_arg)(const char *arg) = is_msys2_sh(cmd ? cmd : *argv) ? quote_arg_msys2 : quote_arg_msvc; + const char *strace_env; /* Make sure to override previous errors, if any */ errno = 0; @@ -1562,6 +1563,31 @@ static pid_t mingw_spawnve_fd(const char *cmd, const char **argv, char **deltaen free(quoted); } + strace_env = getenv("GIT_STRACE_COMMANDS"); + if (strace_env) { + char *p = path_lookup("strace.exe", 1); + if (!p) + return error("strace not found!"); + if (xutftowcs_path(wcmd, p) < 0) { + free(p); + return -1; + } + free(p); + if (!strcmp("1", strace_env) || + !strcasecmp("yes", strace_env) || + !strcasecmp("true", strace_env)) + strbuf_insert(&args, 0, "strace ", 7); + else { + const char *quoted = quote_arg(strace_env); + struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT; + strbuf_addf(&buf, "strace -o %s ", quoted); + if (quoted != strace_env) + free((char *)quoted); + strbuf_insert(&args, 0, buf.buf, buf.len); + strbuf_release(&buf); + } + } + ALLOC_ARRAY(wargs, st_add(st_mult(2, args.len), 1)); xutftowcs(wargs, args.buf, 2 * args.len + 1); strbuf_release(&args); base-commit: 9fadedd637b312089337d73c3ed8447e9f0aa775 -- gitgitgadget