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9580480570Update debug logging section in the developer notes (Jon Atack)1abaa31aa3Update -debug and -debugexclude help docs for severity level logging (Jon Atack)45f9282162Create BCLog::Level::Trace log severity level (Jon Atack)2a8712db4fUnit test coverage for -loglevel configuration option (klementtan)eb7bee5f84Create -loglevel configuration option (klementtan)98a1f9c687Unit test coverage for log severity levels (klementtan)9c7507bf76Create BCLog::Logger::LogLevelsString() helper function (klementtan)8fe3457dbbUpdate LogAcceptCategory() and unit tests with log severity levels (klementtan)c2797cfc60Add BCLog::Logger::SetLogLevel()/SetCategoryLogLevel() for string inputs (klementtan)f6c0cc0350Add BCLog::Logger::m_category_log_levels data member and getter/setter (Jon Atack)2978b387bfAdd BCLog::Logger::m_log_level data member and getter/setter (Jon Atack)f1379aeca9Simplify BCLog::Level enum class and LogLevelToStr() function (Jon Atack) Pull request description: This is an updated version of https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25287 and the next steps in parent PR #25203 implementing, with Klement Tan, user-configurable, per-category severity log levels based on an idea by John Newbery and refined in GitHub discussions by Wladimir Van der Laan and Marco Falke. - simplify the `BCLog::Level` enum class and the `LogLevelToStr()` function and add documentation - update the logging logic to filter logs by log level both globally and per-category - add a hidden `-loglevel` help-debug config option to allow testing setting the global or per-category severity level on startup for logging categories enabled with the `-debug` configuration option or the logging RPC (Klement Tan) - add a `trace` log severity level selectable by the user; the plan is for the current debug messages to become trace, LogPrint ones to become debug, and LogPrintf ones to become info, warning, or error ``` $ ./src/bitcoind -help-debug | grep -A10 loglevel -loglevel=<level>|<category>:<level> Set the global or per-category severity level for logging categories enabled with the -debug configuration option or the logging RPC: info, debug, trace (default=info); warning and error levels are always logged. If <category>:<level> is supplied, the setting will override the global one and may be specified multiple times to set multiple category-specific levels. <category> can be: addrman, bench, blockstorage, cmpctblock, coindb, estimatefee, http, i2p, ipc, leveldb, libevent, lock, mempool, mempoolrej, net, proxy, prune, qt, rand, reindex, rpc, selectcoins, tor, util, validation, walletdb, zmq. ``` See the individual commit messages for details. ACKs for top commit: jonatack: One final push per `git range-diffa5d5569ce3c4c9 9580480` (should be trivial to re-ACK) to ensure this pull changes no default behavior in any way for users or the tests/CI in order to be completely v24 compatible, to update the unit test setup in general, and to update the debug logging section in the developer notes. klementtan: reACK95804805701440000bytes: reACK9580480570vasild: ACK9580480570dunxen: reACK9580480brunoerg: reACK9580480570Tree-SHA512: 476a638e0581f40b5d058a9992691722e8b546471ec85e07cbc990798d1197fbffbd02e1b3d081b4978404e07a428378cdc8e159c0004b81f58be7fb01b7cba0
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.