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authorSam Thursfield <sam@afuera.me.uk>2020-04-20 00:29:47 +0200
committerSam Thursfield <sam@afuera.me.uk>2020-04-20 01:42:34 +0200
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Add TRACKER_DEBUG environment variable, use for SQL debug
This works the same as GTK's GTK_DEBUG variable. It will allow us to include more types of optional debugging info, and will make the default debug output more readlable. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker/issues/178
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The following environment variables control logging from Tracker daemons:
+ * `TRACKER_DEBUG`: takes a comma-separated list of keywords to enable
+ extra debugging output. Use the keyword 'help' for a list of keywords.
* `TRACKER_VERBOSITY`: takes a value of 1, 2 or 3 and causes increasing
amounts of log output from Tracker code to be written to stdout.
* `G_MESSAGES_DEBUG`: controls log output from GLib-based libraries that