How can I debug git/git-shell related problems?

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Andor picture Andor · May 30, 2011 · Viewed 122.7k times · Source

How can I have some debug information regarding git/git-shell?

I had a problem, that user1 could clone a repository without problem, while user2 could clone only an empty one. I had set GIT_TRACE=1, but nothing useful was told.

Finally, after a long trial and error, it turned out that it was a permission problem on a file. An appropriate error message could short-circuit this problem.

Answer

WTK picture WTK · Jun 27, 2013

For even more verbose output use following:

GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 GIT_TRACE=1 git pull origin master

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