On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 07:39:49AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > Before we had CMake support, the only way to build Git in Visual Studio > was via this hacky `generate` script. > > For a while I tried to fix whenever things got broken, in particular to > allow building confidence in embargoed releases by running the CI builds > in Azure Pipelines in a private Azure DevOps project. I even carried the > patches in Git for Windows with the intention of upstreaming them, > eventually. > > However, it is a lot of work with too little benefit. CMake is much > better supported by Visual Studio. So let's drop this hacky script (plus > support code). Makes sense. This made me wonder whether we also want to get rid of "contrib/vscode", which is similar in spirit. Both Meson and CMake can be used natively with VSCode. Thanks for working on these cleanups! Patrick
