From 9b94affcef28ab5406110cd035aa587f8074befe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: darkfi <darkfi@darkfi>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:44:08 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] app/log: only show the span ID for the top level span

---
 src/util/logger.rs | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/logger.rs b/src/util/logger.rs
index 92a736147..fcffcfb07 100644
--- a/src/util/logger.rs
+++ b/src/util/logger.rs
@@ -207,11 +207,19 @@ where
 
             // Displays the full span tree
             for span in scope.from_root() {
-                // Crop span_id to 6 chars
-                let span_id = span.id().into_u64().to_string();
-                let span_id = &span_id[..span_id.len().min(6)];
+                let span_name = bold.paint(span.metadata().name());
 
-                write!(writer, "{}({})", bold.paint(span.metadata().name()), span_id)?;
+                // Only need to show the span ID once for the root span
+                // since its the same for all child spans too.
+                if !seen {
+                    // Crop span_id to 6 chars
+                    let span_id = span.id().into_u64().to_string();
+                    let span_id = &span_id[..span_id.len().min(6)];
+
+                    write!(writer, "{}({})", span_name, span_id)?;
+                } else {
+                    write!(writer, "{}", span_name)?;
+                }
                 seen = true;
 
                 let ext = span.extensions();