Re: Developing git with IDE
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Feb 14, 2017, 06:22 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 12:15:00AM +0100, Oleg Taranenko wrote:
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> being last decade working with java & javascript I completely lost > relation to c/c++ world. Trying to get into git internals I'm facing > with issue what IDE is more suitable for developing git @ macos ? > > Have googled, but any my search queries following to non-relevant > themes, like supporting git in IDEs etc. > > my first attempt - CLion (as far as I'm Jetbrains fan) - got failed, > as far as doesn't support makefile-based projects, only CMake. > > There are a number of free C/C++ dev tools: Xcode, CodeBlocks, > CodeLite. Gnat, Qt creator, Dev C++, C++ Builder (Borland? :), > Eclipse, NetBeans... what else? > > Because of lack my modern C experience, could somebody share his own > attempts/thoughts/use cases how more convenient dive into the git > development process on the Mac?
I think most people just use a good editor (emacs or vim), and no IDE. I do recommend using ctags or similar (and there is a "make tags" target to build the tags) to help with jumping between functions.
> Tried to find in the git distribution Documentation more information > about this, nothing as well... Would be nice to have a kind of > 'Getting Started Manual'
There is Documentation/CodingGuidelines, but that's mostly about how to _write_ code, not read it. Some protocols and subsystems are covered in Documentation/technical. If you want a "big picture", I think you'd do best to read something like:
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Porcelain
That talks about the system as a whole, not the code, but the layout of the code follows the overall system design (e.g., the entry point for the "log" command is cmd_log(), and you can see which subsystems it uses from there).
-Peff