Hi Junio, On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Josh Steadmon <steadmon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Yes this makes sense. Do you think it's worthwhile to move all the > > session ID implementation out of trace2? Right now there are some > > user-facing bits (environment variables for parent/child SID hierarchy) > > that specifically mention trace2, and I believe that the repo tool is > > using it to tie together logs produced by a single repo invocation. > > If somebody other than trace2 starts using session ID, or if we > introduce a mechanism that allows a session ID assigned without > enabling the rest of the trace2 machinery, such a separation may > make sense at the implementation level, but until then, I do not > think it is worth doing. Yep, the closest we came to having another user of the session ID was Matthew DeVore's `git xl` effort, but that effort seems to have gone cold (https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200207013918.GA459@xxxxxxxxxxx/#r is the latest message in that thread that I could find). Ciao, Dscho
