Re: [PATCH] refs: print errno for read_raw_ref if GIT_TRACE_REFS is set - Han-Wen Nienhuys

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refs: print errno for read_raw_ref if GIT_TRACE_REFS is set
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 10:34:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFQ2z_PhkOEnKNFZ29R5x9rttO+3POT8Tdx9stcQ__oNG=wQsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy2dmkkvo.fsf@gitster.g>

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:08 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> writes:
>
> >> I do wonder if we want strerror(errno) instead of the number, but I
> >> can go either way (it's just a trace output).
> >
> > For tracing, it would be most useful if we got the actual symbol (eg.
> > ENOENT). Is there a way to get at that?
>
> I do not think there is.
>
> And that is the reason why we see everywhere calls to die_errno(),
> error(..., strerror(errno)), etc.
>
> As this is interpolated into trace with untranslated string,
> I suspect that strerror() is not a good match, so let's live with %d
> for now.

Great!

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Waiting for reviews to conclude.
cf. <xmqq4kgbb2ic.fsf@gitster.g>

but I don't know what is left to do. Oversight?

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