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Johannes Schindelin edited this page Nov 9, 2015 · 16 revisions

Debugging Git using the GNU debugger (GDB)

First of all, Git's .exe files should be rebuilt with debugging information, and without optimization (because gdb has serious troubles single-stepping code compiled using -O2 for some reason). To this end, install the Git for Windows SDK, edit /usr/src/git/Makefile to remove the -O2 from the CFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall line and then run make in /usr/src/git/.

After that, you can run Git's executables in GDB like so:

gdb --args ./git.exe --exec-path=/usr/src/git rev-parse HEAD

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