Re: [RFC PATCH] usage: add trace2 entry upon warning()

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On 11/23/20 2:04 PM, Jonathan Tan wrote:
Emit a trace2 error event whenever warning() is called, just like when
die(), error(), or usage() is called.

This helps debugging issues that would trigger warnings but not errors.
In particular, this might have helped debugging an issue I encountered
with commit graphs at $DAYJOB [1].

There is a tradeoff between including potentially relevant messages and
cluttering up the trace output produced. I think that warning() messages
should be included in traces, because by its nature, Git is used over
multiple invocations of the Git tool, and a failure (currently traced)
in a Git invocation might be caused by an unexpected interaction in a
previous Git invocation that only has a warning (currently untraced) as
a symptom - as is the case in [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200629220744.1054093-1-jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx>

LGTM

Thanks,
Jeff




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