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Debugging Git

Some tips about debugging Git with GDB and LLDB.

Compiling Git for debugging

By default, Git's Makefile compiles Git with debug symbols (-g), but with optimization level -O2, which can lead to some variable being optimized out and thus making the executable harder to debug.

To compile with -O0, you can tweak CFLAGS using config.mak:

$ cat config.mak