# ToolsForGit

Tools for developing Git ======================== :sectanchors:

# Summary

This document gathers tips, scripts, and configuration files to help people working on Git’s codebase use their favorite tools while following Git’s coding style.

## Author

The Git community.

# Table of contents

- <a href="#vscode" class="cross-reference">Visual Studio Code (VS Code)</a>

- <a href="#emacs" class="cross-reference">Emacs</a>

## 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

This is adapted from Linux’s suggestion in its CodingStyle document:

- To follow the rules in CodingGuidelines, 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>