Re: Lift --stdout restriction for using reachability bitmap in pack-objects?

From: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2015, 00:09 UTC
Message-ID: <59A24487-0FAC-4E02-B019-8EBCD9306A47@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150217104228.GA26301@peff.net>

On Feb 17, 2015, at 02:42, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 05:36:30PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>>> If the only reason is for gdb, then perhaps:
>>>
>>>  set args pack-objects --stdout </dev/null >/dev/null
>>>
>>> in gdb would help?
>>
>> Right. I used "gdb --args command >/dev/null" instead. Stupid
>> question. Sorry for the noise.
>
> I've made the same mistake myself many times. I really wish gdb would
> interact over /dev/tty by default. The perl debugger does this, and I
> find it quite handy. But I've never managed to make gdb do it. Maybe
> there is an option I've missed[1].

You may want to try cgdb. It is a curses front-end to gdb. I almost never run bare gdb anymore. It has a source file pane (no more line- by-line), a gdb pane and, although a bit clumsy, a TTY pane (not shown in the screen shot) that you can interact with the debuggee with. It's been around for a while, so debian-derived distros can usually just `apt-get install cgdb`. There's a screen shot available [1].

-Kyle

[1] http://cgdb.github.io/