dtail - DTail is a distributed DevOps tool for tailing, grepping, catting logs and other text files on many remote machines at once.

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2025-06-19	Add comprehensive documentation across DTail codebase	Paul Buetow
	Documented all major Go packages and command-line tools with comprehensive comments explaining functionality, architecture, and usage patterns. Major documentation additions: - All cmd/ binaries with detailed package descriptions and main function docs - Core internal packages: config, protocol, clients, server, mapr, discovery - File system operations, error handling, and version management - Complete API documentation for all public interfaces - Architecture insights and component relationships Benefits: - Improved developer onboarding and maintainability - Clear understanding of distributed architecture - Proper Go documentation format for godoc compatibility - Enhanced troubleshooting through error categorization - Comprehensive API reference for all client types 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2025-06-19	Implement Phase 1: Foundation for improved maintainability and testability	Paul Buetow
	- Add standardized error handling package (internal/errors) - Sentinel errors for common conditions - Error wrapping and chaining support - MultiError for batch operations - Add comprehensive test utilities package (internal/testutil) - File/directory test helpers - Assertion functions for common test patterns - Mock SSH server for integration testing - Test data generators - Add unit tests for core packages - Protocol package: delimiter validation and usage tests - Config package: comprehensive configuration tests - Discovery package: server discovery method tests - IO/FS package: stats tracking and grep processor tests All tests passing. This establishes a solid foundation for further improvements. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2021-11-02	Make it so that DTail 3 incompatibility error is printed when trying to ↵	Paul Buetow
	connect to it via a DTail client 4.x
2021-11-02	Bugfix: Dealing correctly with files without newline characters, also add ↵	Paul Buetow
	more tests
2021-10-10	vetting and linting and some code restyling	Paul Buetow

2021-10-02	mapreduce tables are in colors now too	Paul Buetow

2021-09-06	Print out client/server update notice even from dtail server 4 to dtail	Paul Buetow
	client 3.
2021-09-05	finalize new default color schema	Paul Buetow

2021-08-28	1. Major performance gain by not checking for file truncation aftter	Paul Buetow
	each bytes read. 2. Introduce field separator to the protocol package.
2021-08-28	make use of more buffers on server side	Paul Buetow

2021-08-21	read files bytewise for more control of whats happening - change transport ↵	Paul Buetow
	protocol for more control over newlines