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author | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2017-10-04 22:08:19 +0200 |
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committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2017-10-04 22:08:19 +0200 |
commit | 10dd120baa00991934e5efa807fa1c230a443401 (patch) | |
tree | b8edd21965d5b34c23977f3dd6e8f4c9178e7053 /DOCS/man/options.rst | |
parent | bfae72a2788d576bfa04c7e670fe68b52163e85f (diff) | |
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msg: make --msg-level affect --log-file too
But --msg-level can only raise the log level used for --log-file,
because the original idea with --log-file was that it'd log verbose
messages to disk even if terminal logging is lower than -v or fully
disabled.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 85b5418323..8b1bc8c3d8 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -403,8 +403,9 @@ Program Behavior ``--log-file=<path>`` Opens the given path for writing, and print log messages to it. Existing - files will be truncated. The log level always corresponds to ``-v``, - regardless of terminal verbosity levels. + files will be truncated. The log level is at least ``-v``, but can be + raised via ``--msg-level`` (the option cannot lower it below the forced + minimum log level). ``--config-dir=<path>`` Force a different configuration directory. If this is set, the given @@ -3380,6 +3381,8 @@ Terminal can use the module names printed in the output (prefixed to each line in ``[...]``) to limit the output to interesting modules. + This also affects ``--log-file``, and in certain cases libmpv API logging. + .. note:: Some messages are printed before the command line is parsed and are |