Tools for developing Git ======================== :sectanchors: [[summary]] == Summary This document gathers tips, scripts and configuration file to help people working on Git's codebase use their favorite tools while following Git's coding style. [[author]] === Author The Git community. [[table_of_contents]] == Table of contents - <> - <> [[vscode]] === Visual Studio Code (VS Code) The contrib/vscode/init.sh script creates configuration files that enable several valuable VS Code features. See contrib/vscode/README.md for more information on using the script. [[emacs]] === Emacs This is adapted from Linux's suggestion in its CodingStyle document: - To follow rules of the CodingGuideline, it's useful to put the following in GIT_CHECKOUT/.dir-locals.el, assuming you use cperl-mode: ---- ;; note the first part is useful for C editing, too ((nil . ((indent-tabs-mode . t) (tab-width . 8) (fill-column . 80))) (cperl-mode . ((cperl-indent-level . 8) (cperl-extra-newline-before-brace . nil) (cperl-merge-trailing-else . t)))) ---- For a more complete setup, since Git's codebase uses a coding style similar to the Linux kernel's style, tips given in Linux's CodingStyle document can be applied here too. ==== https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#you-ve-made-a-mess-of-it