Re: [PATCH] git-cget: prints elements of C code in the git repository

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 24, 2009, 13:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20090324135906.GA10644@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <49C8E074.4030808@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:30:28PM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:

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> > - the commit message is severely lacking (I had to apply it and run it to 
> >   find out what problem it tries to solve),
> 
> This is probably better:
> 
> This script shows where elements of C code are defined in the git-repository.
> It is still experimental, although it should work in most cases.

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to base this on something like ctags, which already knows how to do all the parsing of C quirky C?

I.e.:

  git ls-files | xargs ctags
  vi -t get_sha1

Where you can replace "vi" with your editor of choice. And if you really like getting the definition dumped to stdout, writing a command-line viewer for the ctags format would be quite simple (and I would be surprised if one hasn't been written already).

-Peff