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Elijah Newren cf6cac2005 documentation: wording improvements
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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09 12:04:21 -07:00
Victoria Dye aac0e8ffee builtin/bugreport.c: create '--diagnose' option
Create a '--diagnose' option for 'git bugreport' to collect additional
information about the repository and write it to a zipped archive.

The '--diagnose' option behaves effectively as an alias for simultaneously
running 'git bugreport' and 'git diagnose'. In the documentation, users are
explicitly recommended to attach the diagnostics alongside a bug report to
provide additional context to readers, ideally reducing some back-and-forth
between reporters and those debugging the issue.

Note that '--diagnose' may take an optional string arg (either 'stats' or
'all'). If specified without the arg, the behavior corresponds to running
'git diagnose' without '--mode'. As with 'git diagnose', this default is
intended to help reduce unintentional leaking of sensitive information).
Users can also explicitly specify '--diagnose=(stats|all)' to generate the
respective archive created by 'git diagnose --mode=(stats|all)'.

Suggested-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-12 13:20:02 -07:00
Bagas Sanjaya ca0cc98e03 Documentation: fix default directory of git bugreport -o
git bugreport writes bug report to the current directory by default,
instead of repository root.

Fix the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-07 14:25:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano ce095ecfe4 Merge branch 'es/bugreport-shell'
"git bugreport" learns to report what shell is in use.

* es/bugreport-shell:
  bugreport: include user interactive shell
  help: add shell-path to --build-options
2020-06-08 18:06:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 22954ba04d Merge branch 'es/bugreport'
Doc fix.

* es/bugreport:
  git-bugreport.txt: adjust reference to strftime(3)
2020-05-20 08:33:30 -07:00
Todd Zullinger 01b62aaf11 git-bugreport.txt: adjust reference to strftime(3)
The strftime(3) man page is outside of the Git suite.  Refererence it as
we do other external man pages and avoid creating a broken link when
generating the HTML documentation.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-18 12:54:53 -07:00
Emily Shaffer 4a4804edf4 bugreport: include user interactive shell
It's possible a user may complain about the way that Git interacts with
their interactive shell, e.g. autocompletion or shell prompt. In that
case, it's useful for us to know which shell they're using
interactively.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-12 22:02:20 -07:00
Emily Shaffer 788a776069 bugreport: collect list of populated hooks
Occasionally a failure a user is seeing may be related to a specific
hook which is being run, perhaps without the user realizing. While the
contents of hooks can be sensitive - containing user data or process
information specific to the user's organization - simply knowing that a
hook is being run at a certain stage can help us to understand whether
something is going wrong.

Without a definitive list of hook names within the code, we compile our
own list from the documentation. This is likely prone to bitrot, but
designing a single source of truth for acceptable hooks is too much
overhead for this small change to the bugreport tool.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-07 18:25:04 -07:00
Emily Shaffer 69bcbbceb7 bugreport: add compiler info
To help pinpoint the source of a regression, it is useful to know some
info about the compiler which the user's Git client was built with. By
adding a generic get_compiler_info() in 'compat/' we can choose which
relevant information to share per compiler; to get started, let's
demonstrate the version of glibc if the user built with 'gcc'.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Helped-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-16 15:23:42 -07:00
Emily Shaffer 1411914a1c bugreport: add uname info
The contents of uname() can give us some insight into what sort of
system the user is running on, and help us replicate their setup if need
be. The domainname field is not guaranteed to be available, so don't
collect it.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-16 15:23:42 -07:00
Emily Shaffer 617d57195a bugreport: gather git version and build info
Knowing which version of Git a user has and how it was built allows us
to more precisely pin down the circumstances when a certain issue
occurs, so teach bugreport how to tell us the same output as 'git
version --build-options'.

It's not ideal to directly call 'git version --build-options' because
that output goes to stdout. Instead, wrap the version string in a helper
within help.[ch] library, and call that helper from within the bugreport
library.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-16 15:23:42 -07:00
Emily Shaffer 238b439d69 bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info
Teach Git how to prompt the user for a good bug report: reproduction
steps, expected behavior, and actual behavior. Later, Git can learn how
to collect some diagnostic information from the repository.

If users can send us a well-written bug report which contains diagnostic
information we would otherwise need to ask the user for, we can reduce
the number of question-and-answer round trips between the reporter and
the Git contributor.

Users may also wish to send a report like this to their local "Git
expert" if they have put their repository into a state they are confused
by.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-16 15:23:42 -07:00