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Re: Using Visual Studio Code to Debug/Trace Git?

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Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2025, 20:38 UTC
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> Le 10 janv. 2025 à 12:16, Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> I'm interested in using Visual Studio Code to help understand
> how git works. I'm thinking it would make it easy to see what
> actually happens when git commands are run.
> 
> What I don't know is how to integrate git's build system into
> Visual Studio Code. Has anybody tried this? If not, what tools
> do you use to debug git?
AFAIK, it’s make (with some autoconf stuff) and C debuggers like gdb/lldb. But maybe someone has a better answer. I’d expect VS Code to support this pretty easily.

Best, D. Ben Knoble

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