diff --git a/packages/main/src/GitService.ts b/packages/main/src/GitService.ts
index ba274cd..120bdaa 100644
--- a/packages/main/src/GitService.ts
+++ b/packages/main/src/GitService.ts
@@ -86,14 +86,10 @@ export const GitService = {
       o.detached=false;
       o.shell = true;
 
-      // verbose
-      // o.env['GIT_TRACE'] = 1;
-      // o.env['GIT_TRACE_PACKET'] = 1;
-      // o.env['GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE'] = 1;
-      // o.env['GIT_TRACE_SETUP'] = 1;
-      // o.env['GIT_CURL_VERBOSE'] = 1;
-      // o.env['GIT_TRANSFER_TRACE'] = 1;
-      // o.stdio = 'inherit';
+      if(o.debug){
+        o.env['GIT_TRACE'] = 1;
+        o.env['GIT_CURL_VERBOSE'] = 1;
+      }
 
       o.cwd = (o.cwd || '').split('/').join(PATH.sep);
 
diff --git a/packages/renderer/src/AppProperties.ts b/packages/renderer/src/AppProperties.ts
index ae0f1a1..38a7c73 100644
--- a/packages/renderer/src/AppProperties.ts
+++ b/packages/renderer/src/AppProperties.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ const AppProperties: {
   force_lfs_update: 0,
 
   config: {
+    gitDebug: false,
     toolbarMinimized: false,
     showHelp: false,
     showTooltips: false,
@@ -72,7 +73,6 @@ const get_datahubs = async ()=>{
         active: true,
         starts_at: new Date().toISOString()
       })
-      console.log(new Date().toISOString())
       AppProperties.datahub_hosts_msgs[host] = temp;
     } else {
       let contains_critical = false;
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ const get_datahubs = async ()=>{
 const init = async ()=>{
   await AppProperties.read_config();
   watch(AppProperties.config, ()=>{
-    console.log('xxx')
     window.ipc.invoke('LocalFileSystemService.writeConfig', JSON.stringify(AppProperties.config));
   });
   await get_datahubs();
diff --git a/packages/renderer/src/views/GitSyncView.vue b/packages/renderer/src/views/GitSyncView.vue
index c988f8f..917eaa8 100644
--- a/packages/renderer/src/views/GitSyncView.vue
+++ b/packages/renderer/src/views/GitSyncView.vue
@@ -173,7 +173,8 @@ const push = async()=>{
 
   response = await window.ipc.invoke('GitService.run', {
     args: args,
-    cwd: ArcControlService.props.arc_root
+    cwd: ArcControlService.props.arc_root,
+    debug: AppProperties.config.gitDebug
   });
 
   // unpatch
@@ -373,7 +374,8 @@ const pull = async()=>{
     cwd: ArcControlService.props.arc_root,
     env: {
       GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE: iProps.use_lfs?0:1
-    }
+    },
+    debug: AppProperties.config.gitDebug
   });
   dialogProps.needs_merge = !response[0] && response[1].includes('You have divergent branches and need to specify how to reconcile them.');
   if(dialogProps.needs_merge){
@@ -384,7 +386,8 @@ const pull = async()=>{
   if(iProps.use_lfs){
     response = await window.ipc.invoke('GitService.run', {
       args: [`lfs`,`pull`,iProps.remote,branches.current],
-      cwd: ArcControlService.props.arc_root
+      cwd: ArcControlService.props.arc_root,
+      debug: AppProperties.config.gitDebug
     });
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/renderer/src/views/SettingsView.vue b/packages/renderer/src/views/SettingsView.vue
index 8b161a4..dd4e057 100644
--- a/packages/renderer/src/views/SettingsView.vue
+++ b/packages/renderer/src/views/SettingsView.vue
@@ -30,6 +30,16 @@ const resetARCitect = async ()=>{
           default-opened
         >
           <q-list dense>
+            <q-item tag="label" v-ripple="{color:'grey'}">
+              <q-item-section avatar>
+                <q-checkbox v-model="AppProperties.config.gitDebug" color='secondary'/>
+              </q-item-section>
+              <q-item-section>
+                <q-item-label>Git Debugging</q-item-label>
+                <q-item-label caption>Enables verbose git messages during push and pull requests</q-item-label>
+              </q-item-section>
+            </q-item>
+
             <q-item tag="label" v-ripple="{color:'grey'}">
               <q-item-section avatar>
                 <q-checkbox v-model="AppProperties.config.showTooltips" color='secondary'/>
diff --git a/resources/ARCitect.json b/resources/ARCitect.json
index 928c0a7..e4172c8 100644
--- a/resources/ARCitect.json
+++ b/resources/ARCitect.json
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
+  "gitDebug": false,
   "toolbarMinimized": false,
   "showHelp": false,
   "showTooltips": false,