ce messages into this file descriptor.</p>
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<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.  If the path already exists and is a directory, the
trace messages will be written to files (one per process)
in that directory, named according to the last component
of the SID and an optional counter (to avoid filename
collisions).</p>
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