ages will be printed to
stderr.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>If the variable is set to an integer value greater than 2
and lower than 10 (strictly) then Git will interpret this
value as an open file descriptor and will try to write the
trace messages into this file descriptor.</p>
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<div class="paragraph">
<p>Alternatively, if the variable is set to an absolute path
(starting with a <em>/</em> character), Git will interpret this
as a file path and will try to append the trace messages
to it.</