[Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) (nickname "VS Code") is a light-weight, cross-platform, Open Source development environment, with an increasingly powerful extension to support C/C++ development. In particular the intellisense support as well as all the other niceties developers might have come to expect from Integrated Development Environments will help accelerate development.
This topic branch makes it easy to get started using VS Code to develop Git itself. To get started, run the script `./contrib/vscode/init.sh`. This will initialize the `.vscode/` directory and some files in that directory. After that, simply open Git's top-level directory as "folder" in VS Code. The files have to be generated because of the curious way Git determines what flags to pass to the C compiler, in particular which constants are defined, because they change the compile flow in rather dramatic ways (determining, e.g. which SHA-1 backend to use). Johannes Schindelin (9): contrib: add a script to initialize VS Code configuration vscode: hard-code a couple defines cache.h: extract enum declaration from inside a struct declaration mingw: define WIN32 explicitly vscode: only overwrite C/C++ settings vscode: wrap commit messages at column 72 by default vscode: use 8-space tabs, no trailing ws, etc for Git's source code vscode: add a dictionary for cSpell vscode: let cSpell work on commit messages, too .gitignore | 1 + cache.h | 24 ++- config.mak.uname | 2 +- contrib/vscode/.gitattributes | 1 + contrib/vscode/README.md | 14 ++ contrib/vscode/init.sh | 375 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 405 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) create mode 100644 contrib/vscode/.gitattributes create mode 100644 contrib/vscode/README.md create mode 100755 contrib/vscode/init.sh base-commit: 53f9a3e157dbbc901a02ac2c73346d375e24978c Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-2%2Fdscho%2Fvscode-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2/dscho/vscode-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2 -- gitgitgadget
