From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: hint about GIT_DEBUGGER
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 22:40:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BHZkQG+pr4MmVGahHDR56grqvRsYNxZ=uShK70APzj9LA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190517204826.45308-1-emilyshaffer@google.com>
Hi Emily,
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:40 PM Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> wrote:
>
> 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).
>
> It looks like you can use GIT_DEBUGGER to pick gdb by default, or you
> can hand it your own debugger if you like to use something else (or if
> you want custom flags for gdb). Hopefully document that intent within
> CodingGuidelines.
Thanks for working on this.
> Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
> ---
> Maybe this isn't the right place for this patch. But right now git grep
> reveals that GIT_DEBUGGER is completely undocumented.
Does 'git log --grep=GIT_DEBUGGER' count? ;-)
> Alternatively, it might make sense to only add a short blurb about using
> GIT_DEBUGGER flag to CodingGuidelines and then documenting how to use it
> inside of wrap-for-bin.sh.
>
> Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> index 32210a4386..e17cd75b50 100644
> --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> @@ -412,6 +412,11 @@ 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-binary some-args ./bin-wrappers/git foo` to
Missing some quotes around debugger-binary and some-args:
+ run `GIT_DEBUGGER="debugger-binary some-args" ./bin-wrappers/git foo` to
Also, one thing I always wonder about with command documentation like
this is whether people will understand that "debugger-binary",
"some-args", and "foo" are just placeholders rather than literal text
-- and that everything else is literal text and not meant to be
placeholders. Does it make since to include a couple examples, or
perhaps modify the text somehow to avoid confusion between
placeholders and literals, or maybe just tell me I overthinking this?
(I've been bit by similar problems in other contexts, so I'm just
flagging it for you to consider).
Elijah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-18 5:45 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 [this message]
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 ` [PATCH v4] " Emily Shaffer
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