Add a flag to allow performance logging: GITBUTLER_PERFORMANCE_LOG

````
GITBUTLER_PERFORMANCE_LOG=1 LOG_LEVEL=debug pnpm tauri dev
````

Additionally, some noise was removed by turning a warning into
a trace.

Cargo.lock

@@ -2565,6 +2565,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-appender",
+ "tracing-forest",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 

DEVELOPMENT.md

@@ -132,6 +132,12 @@ The app writes logs into:
 1. `stdout` in development mode
 2. The Tauri [logs](https://tauri.app/v1/api/js/path/#platform-specific) directory
 
+One can get performance log when launching the application locally as follows:
+
+```bash
+GITBUTLER_PERFORMANCE_LOG=1 LOG_LEVEL=debug pnpm tauri dev
+```
+
 ### Tokio
 
 We are also collecting tokio's runtime tracing information that could be viewed using [tokio-console](https://github.com/tokio-rs/console#tokio-console-prototypes):

crates/gitbutler-cli/src/main.rs

@@ -77,14 +77,19 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
 }
 
 mod trace {
+    use tracing::metadata::LevelFilter;
     use tracing_subscriber::layer::SubscriberExt;
     use tracing_subscriber::util::SubscriberInitExt;
+    use tracing_subscriber::Layer;
 
     pub fn init() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
         tracing_subscriber::registry()
-            .with(tracing_forest::ForestLayer::from(
+            .with(
-                tracing_forest::printer::PrettyPrinter::new().writer(std::io::stderr),
+                tracing_forest::ForestLayer::from(
-            ))
+                    tracing_forest::printer::PrettyPrinter::new().writer(std::io::stderr),
+                )
+                .with_filter(LevelFilter::DEBUG),
+            )
             .init();
         Ok(())
     }

crates/gitbutler-command-context/src/lib.rs

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ impl CommandContext {
                 Ok(false) => true,
                 Ok(true) => false,
                 Err(err) => {
-                    tracing::warn!(
+                    tracing::trace!(
                                 "failed to get gitbutler.didSetPrune for repository at {}; cannot disable gc: {}",
                                 project.path.display(),
                                 err

crates/gitbutler-tauri/Cargo.toml

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread", "parking_lot"] }
 tracing.workspace = true
 tracing-appender = "0.2.3"
 tracing-subscriber.workspace = true
+tracing-forest = { version = "0.1.6" }
 gitbutler-watcher.workspace = true
 gitbutler-branch-actions.workspace = true
 gitbutler-oplog.workspace = true

crates/gitbutler-tauri/src/logs.rs

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use tracing::{instrument, metadata::LevelFilter, subscriber::set_global_default}
 use tracing_appender::rolling::{RollingFileAppender, Rotation};
 use tracing_subscriber::{fmt::format::FmtSpan, layer::SubscriberExt, Layer};
 
-pub fn init(app_handle: &AppHandle) {
+pub fn init(app_handle: &AppHandle, performance_logging: bool) {
     let logs_dir = app_handle
         .path_resolver()
         .app_log_dir()
@@ -53,25 +53,37 @@ pub fn init(app_handle: &AppHandle) {
                 .recording_path(logs_dir.join("tokio-console"))
                 .spawn(),
         )
-        .with(
-            // subscriber that writes spans to stdout
-            tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer()
-                .event_format(format_for_humans.clone())
-                .with_ansi(use_colors_in_logs)
-                .with_span_events(FmtSpan::CLOSE)
-                .with_filter(log_level_filter),
-        )
         .with(
             // subscriber that writes spans to a file
             tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer()
-                .event_format(format_for_humans)
+                .event_format(format_for_humans.clone())
                 .with_ansi(false)
                 .with_span_events(FmtSpan::NEW | FmtSpan::CLOSE)
                 .with_writer(file_writer)
                 .with_filter(log_level_filter),
         );
-
+    if performance_logging {
-    set_global_default(subscriber).expect("failed to set subscriber");
+        set_global_default(
+            subscriber.with(
+                tracing_forest::ForestLayer::from(
+                    tracing_forest::printer::PrettyPrinter::new().writer(std::io::stdout),
+                )
+                .with_filter(log_level_filter),
+            ),
+        )
+    } else {
+        set_global_default(
+            subscriber.with(
+                // subscriber that writes spans to stdout
+                tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer()
+                    .event_format(format_for_humans)
+                    .with_ansi(use_colors_in_logs)
+                    .with_span_events(FmtSpan::CLOSE)
+                    .with_filter(log_level_filter),
+            ),
+        )
+    }
+    .expect("failed to set subscriber");
 }
 
 fn get_server_addr(app_handle: &AppHandle) -> (Ipv4Addr, u16) {

crates/gitbutler-tauri/src/main.rs

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ use tauri::{generate_context, Manager};
 use tauri_plugin_log::LogTarget;
 
 fn main() {
+    let performance_logging = std::env::var_os("GITBUTLER_PERFORMANCE_LOG").is_some();
     gitbutler_project::configure_git2();
     let tauri_context = generate_context!();
     gitbutler_secret::secret::set_application_namespace(
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ fn main() {
 
                     let app_handle = tauri_app.handle();
 
-                    logs::init(&app_handle);
+                    logs::init(&app_handle, performance_logging);
 
                     // On MacOS, in dev mode with debug assertions, we encounter popups each time
                     // the binary is rebuilt. To counter that, use a git-credential based implementation.