Hi Jonathan, On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > > > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > > > 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 <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > 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
