From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:03:59 GMT
Subject: Re: git compile with debug symbols
Message-ID: <vpqtxbene6o.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <87a9d6hsf3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Mahesh Pujari <pujarimahesh_kumar@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>  I am trying to compile git with debug symbols and failed to do so
>> (basically I am a noob), can some one direct me to links or mailing
>> list (have searched but couldn't find) or doc's so that I can debug
>> git using gdb.
>
> git is compiled with debug symbols by default.

... but:

1) some Git commands are shell-scripts, on which you can't use gdb.

2) some Git commands fork other commands, and then you have to deal with
   multiple processes (i.e. putting a breakpoint in a piece of code
   executed by the subprocess won't work if gdb is running on the other
   one).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/