I was lucky to learn from a failure of analytics (kind of reporting) feature which was built directly on operational database. My notes on this bliki: ReportingDatabaseA reporting database takes data from an operational database, reorganizing it to better support reporting.Martin Fowlermartinfowler.comSome

As git based on ssh application (layer), we can take advantage of this ability to troubleshoot the connection underline GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -vvv" git pull