Hello, to debug some issues I built and installed git via $ make prefix=/usr/local DEVELOPER=1 CFLAGS="-O0 -g" $ sudo make install $ git --version # git version 2.23.0.40.g4d8aada92f But it seems there's still some optimization going on that prevents gdb from working correctly. For example (gdb) b builtin/config.c:752 Breakpoint 1 at 0x43942: file builtin/config.c, line 752. (gdb) r config --global --edit Starting program: /usr/local/bin/git config --global --edit [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libth read_db.so.1". Breakpoint 1, cmd_config (argc=0, argv=<optimized out>, prefix=<optimized out>) at builtin/config.c:753 753 if (fd >= 0) { (gdb) p fd $1 = <optimized out> What am I missing? -Giuseppe