From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A13BE1F597 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:28:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731953AbeG3QEJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:04:09 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:55751 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727082AbeG3QEI (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:04:08 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.129] ([37.201.193.26]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M08eS-1fyfH13acW-00uKtH; Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:28:47 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:28:46 +0200 (DST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@gitforwindows.org To: Jonathan Nieder cc: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] contrib: add a script to initialize VS Code configuration In-Reply-To: <20180723165719.GA16420@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> Message-ID: References: <20180723165719.GA16420@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:CdDcgIHjNmhP4F354KVvszsWuPq0feheuH3KWflukf61OtJZuHQ xVcBnBwFJbF3m4+iZVeBvSZ+r4sfY3RU2vPjvDBm/ManHNYjI36RnpTuap1o3IBYPC9veNw 5+91wuDgZ2+3rH0/DzgrU3tZBKgtjHB1olEaLNxtkFONOaU7XdpLWvElf0nEvdvN1hHeGNW KvVz4Q/lHgM1kdqJyAGdw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:nNoya+E1hDg=:BLrWp7gJkxiczw+MCQ9R4Z xlwRQBUdfDLmUAF9QWEBfww/x0e6NnAkiuvuX9zydSupKA3kWmV1UIEuxPv1AnAkoNDdcVuFp pfEAkgwfqbiPX/ubsZxC/vLtQvSUuLKCPSMbdFDrk664JGveDbNs/GzGc9U4Qg8ERYu3S6MlL Wn0ShvQykRxtXv5UkDpks85FHc5QRebggGDUyU6SqRIbamF0zxyk/MwrwGr/Aba/C/yM3FUM/ KPGRGG9cV5qyG5s9ywPdXm9IPtNQnMQYGHYr72l7h8ZzNTdEJUXVsUkgbuoorL2PChtwrcC1/ BFiUmcE44RHP0PhZoKDOXfMJza/hXuouQc+Flc7XZfyZa2zgzIJw4YbTxBiVq0oWc3PhI9hfW 6P5UGBCJShiISrk4vS7ym9aggehlr5wV2b1g+jZBjfZ0qMUADakptJNYRRKCfbUNM9UWGDxV2 d+yESbzA/8Hap4UaC8/Vcom0+FUrX+vrHiGRhAVT/BP+X+e4AH3lOLwTd7GeXvavXM6nkO1Ql SS/mKMTRr8pBn8M8ueUoucPRYuqGlqU8nHcEbYUk+2WXKsOHkjfEth9Zbom+jaxnAnBHpGJV/ B/nMVlaTtl8a7Gf7R3AGWZiUMH6/0IG6V0rBP3Q53iWgfL9QIUUAdyNr4Wb4s6NQzNcSw1/sa rOPitnpfmMdxDKnJOWJ0VNxKUji7xWF5h7oGWyloWJ0cJR+fC1tfLMZdTRX8/Hkd6+YGq0O7M CMD0HM1Ei5MbjmN+0S56nDTgy3iMKVIZQh64oymFqXfSM5GLg1SU9isRWo/n5YLuOy1TBM3iu 9c8vuk+ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Jonathan, On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > > > From: Johannes Schindelin > > > > VS Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on > > your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Among other > > languages, it has support for C/C++ via an extension. > > This doesn't really seem relevant to the change. The relevant bits > are that (1) VS Code is a popular source code editor, and that (2) > it's one worth recommending to newcomers. To the contrary. This paragraph describes the motivation of the patch. It is, if you want, the most important part of the entire patch series. > > To start developing Git with VS Code, simply run the Unix shell script > > contrib/vscode/init.sh, which creates the configuration files in > > .vscode/ that VS Code consumes. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin > > This doesn't tell me what the patch will actually do. True. Will add a paragraph. > VSCode is an editor. Is the idea that this will help configure the > editor to do the right thing with whitespace or something? Or does it > configure IDE features to build git? It is a start of all of the above. Ideally, I will be eventually be able to consistently use VS Code for Git development, whether I have to work on a Linux, a macOS or a Windows machine. And I am not happy until the same ease is also available to others. Hence my contribution. Ciao, Dscho