[systemd-devel] journalctl -x considered harmful

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 02:34:41AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 06.09.13 14:26, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think we should remove all recommendations to use -x for bug
> > reports. Generic explanations are not useful one you know the bug
> > messages, and those addtional like make the text much harder to read.
> > 
> > Users may continue to use -x while reading logs, of course.
> 
> For bug *reports* adding -x certainly doesn't make sense. Do we have
> documented that somewhere?
I've seen it requested on bug reports, I think, but not in any
official documentation. I'll add a note to the journalctl man
page not to use it in bug reports.

Zbyszek