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From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
	Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4] doc: hint about GIT_DEBUGGER in CodingGuidelines
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 12:07:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190528190729.78029-1-emilyshaffer@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190523005533.260611-1-emilyshaffer@google.com>

We check for a handy environment variable GIT_DEBUGGER when running via
bin-wrappers/, but this feature is undocumented. Add a hint to how to
use it into the CodingGuidelines (which is where other useful
environment settings like DEVELOPER are documented).

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
---
 Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 32210a4386..1169ff6c8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -412,6 +412,12 @@ For C programs:
    must be declared with "extern" in header files. However, function
    declarations should not use "extern", as that is already the default.
 
+ - You can launch gdb around your program using the shorthand GIT_DEBUGGER.
+   Run `GIT_DEBUGGER=1 ./bin-wrappers/git foo` to simply use gdb as is, or
+   run `GIT_DEBUGGER="<debugger> <debugger-args>" ./bin-wrappers/git foo` to
+   use your own debugger and arguments. Example: `GIT_DEBUGGER="ddd --gdb"
+   ./bin-wrappers/git log` (See `wrap-for-bin.sh`.)
+
 For Perl programs:
 
  - Most of the C guidelines above apply.
-- 
2.22.0.rc1.257.g3120a18244-goog


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-28 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-17 20:48 [PATCH] doc: hint about GIT_DEBUGGER Emily Shaffer
2019-05-18  5:40 ` Elijah Newren
2019-05-20 20:38   ` Emily Shaffer
2019-05-21  1:00 ` [PATCH v2] " Emily Shaffer
2019-05-21 16:06   ` Elijah Newren
2019-05-21 18:19     ` Emily Shaffer
2019-05-23  0:55   ` [PATCH v3] doc: hint about GIT_DEBUGGER in CodingGuidelines Emily Shaffer
2019-05-23 10:09     ` Eric Sunshine
2019-05-28 19:05       ` Emily Shaffer
2019-05-28 19:07     ` Emily Shaffer [this message]

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