# Developing git with IDE

2 messages from 2017-02-13 to 2017-02-14. Participants: Oleg Taranenko, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/45133

## Oleg Taranenko, 2017-02-13 23:15

Subject: Developing git with IDE
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Hi *,

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?

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'


Thanks for your time,

Oleg Taranenko

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## Jeff King, 2017-02-14 06:22

Subject: Re: Developing git with IDE
Message-ID: <20170214062255.5oumhsou7isaei7n@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 12:15:00AM +0100, Oleg Taranenko wrote:

> 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

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