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From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:25:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190816012519.GF208753@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwofe0zgd.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:40:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:
> 
> > I think a whitelist of config options to print would grow stale
> > immediately, and the options we're missing would be very likely to be
> > configs to turn on new experimental features - which is probably what we
> > most want the bugreport for.
> 
> The implementation of your "git bugreport" command comes from the
> same version of Git as such an experimental feature you want
> feedback to is shipped with, so I am not sure where your concern
> about staleness comes from.
> 
> If you really care about getting quality reports, you need to earn
> users' trust (one way of doing so would be to maintain a good "list
> of benign configuration knobs whose values help diagnosing issues"),
> and you need to make sure we obtain relevant pieces of information.
> Both of these things are something you need to actively work on.
> 
> We have trained ourselves to the point that we consider it a bug if
> you add a new command git-bugreport without adding a corresponding
> pattern in the .gitignore file.  And thanks to that discipline, we
> have been fairly good at keeping .gitignore up to date.  I do not
> see a reason why we cannot do something similar to the registry of
> configuration variables that we care about, which may be shipped as
> part of "git bugreport" command.

I think comparing this habit to the .gitignore isn't quite fair -
.gitignore tells me I forgot to add my new command binary to it, when I
run `git status` to see what I need to add to my commit with new
command.

But, I agree that it's not going to be possible to create a completely
leakproof blacklisting heuristic here. So I'll use a whitelist for the
next patchset.

 - Emily

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-16  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-15  2:34 [PATCH] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 14:15 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-15 14:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-15 22:52     ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 23:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-16  1:25         ` Emily Shaffer [this message]
2019-08-16 16:41           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-16 19:08             ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 20:07   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-15 22:24     ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-16 20:19       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-15 20:13   ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 18:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-15 21:52   ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 22:29     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-15 22:54       ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] add git-bugreport tool Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17  0:39   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17  0:39   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] bugreport: generate config whitelist based on docs Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17 20:38     ` Martin Ågren
2019-08-21 17:40       ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25  2:51   ` [PATCH v3 0/9] add git-bugreport tool Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 1/9] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29 20:29       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-11-16  3:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-19 20:25         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-19 23:24           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-20  0:37             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-20 10:51               ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-19 23:31           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-20  0:39             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-20  2:09             ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-20  0:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 2/9] bugreport: generate config whitelist based on docs Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 13:27       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 3/9] bugreport: add version and system information Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 13:49       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-08 21:48         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-11 13:48           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-14 21:42             ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29 20:43       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 4/9] bugreport: add config values from whitelist Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 14:14       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11 20:48         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-15 17:30           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-29 20:58       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-30  1:37         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-14 21:55           ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 5/9] bugreport: collect list of populated hooks Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 14:31       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11 20:51         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-15 17:40           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 6/9] bugreport: count loose objects Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:07       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-10 22:34         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29 21:18       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 7/9] bugreport: add packed object summary Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:43       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11  0:29         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-11 13:37           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11 20:52             ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 8/9] bugreport: list contents of $OBJDIR/info Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:51       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 9/9] bugreport: print contents of alternates file Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:57       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-19 20:40         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29  1:54     ` [PATCH v3 0/9] add git-bugreport tool Junio C Hamano
2019-10-29 11:13       ` Johannes Schindelin

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