For git I do everything on the command line except I use gitx to stage lines/files. GUI obvious winner when it comes to doing that.

God I hate this IDE, seriously wtf.



How do I view what is in the stack trace? How can I not figure out completely basic debugging functions? This thing drives me insane.

try the CLI version

Couldn't imagine debugging a "low level" embedded type firmware issue without an IDE that has a GUI efficiently FWIW but ymmv.

git bisect is good for finding which commit broke something

I agree: I'd rather use an GUI for assembly.

Is this IntelliJ and you're doing Java? Honestly it's a fantastic IDE once you get used to it. I made my one and probably only ever Android game with Java. I also use IntelliJ PyCharm for Python (although also experimenting with straight vim) and they have a nice Rust plugin for Rust as well if you're into that sort of thing.

You probably want to be looking at the Console tab, the Debugger is really only useful to inspect variables during debugging execution. The stack trace should be shown in the console in the traditional way. Not sure I understand your confusion with the debugging, as with any other IDE find the start/stop/step over/step into/etc. buttons, learn their hotkeys, and then gogogo.

Those are the basics; I'm down to answer more questions if you need.

Do you normally program in Java?

This seems to be saying the issue is in line 90 of the "scrape" file.

Java.lang.NullPointerExceptoin means you inserted an empty collection or value. This would be either forgetting to unpack an array, unpacking an empty array, or a off-by-one error. Most likely unpacking an empty array.

The exception was getting handled further up the stack, so no stack trace in the console. I was therefore trying to look at it at a breakpoint in the catch block. The point isn't about exception handling though, it's that I have an object with a property and I want to see the property and can't drill down into it. Is this just not a thing I can do in Java or something? Coming from .NET/Visual Studio.

While you're here saw, any idea about this?

I guess take my "expertise" (lack thereof, really though) and personal experience with a grain of salt, I'm not a software dev or anything, so I probably am not using it at as high a level as you. I basically made 1 game and then mostly do scientific computing/signal processing/machine learning stuffs. I will say though, the IntelliJ software does seem unanimously loved.

Oh I get it. You were debugging though, so that's good. I honestly haven't handled exceptions in Java in like 10 years haha. Yea I guess I would think you should be able to expand the stack trace object as well. I really don't know though, sorry.

I also do not understand mostly everything in that screenshot lol.

From what I understand, the other Java IDEs are worse.

It's probably fine software once you understand how to use it, but it's hellishly unintuitive. As one trivial example, when you mouse over stuff in Visual Studio, let's say a method, it will pop up a tooltip with method signature. To get a similar thing in IntelliJ, you hold down Ctrl and mouse over stuff. I know that because I googled it. The most obviously annoying thing there is how undiscoverable it is - who tries holding down Ctrl and mousing over stuff? But the thing that really blows my mind is that this wasn't done to make way for some other function - just mousing over stuff doesn't do anything. They apparently just decided to make the IDE miles less intuitive and discoverable for no reason at all.

The Project Structure dialog has a different version of a library specified than everywhere else in the project. My project was failing at runtime because it was trying to find a version of the library that no longer existed. I have no clue where IntelliJ stores the information it shows in Project Structure and so far nobody has been able to tell me. I have tried running a search on my whole hard drive and reading documentation and I still have no idea. The problem happened after someone else updated the libraries in the project, so apparently source control doesn't have the files it needs to update the version specs. I was able to fix it manually within IntelliJ, but it will probably just break again next time libraries are updated. As a soapboxy aside, every settings editor should have a little thing you can click that says "show me the file where these settings are stored".

I have also now had three people tell me that IntelliJ is a good IDE and zero of them have been able to tell me why I can't drill down to stack trace in that screenshot above, which to me kind of undermines their opinions

Meh, I sort of view it like the command line argument with suzzer. IDEs are trying to do lots of complex things so everything isn’t going to be super intuitive.

No sane human reads Java stack traces.

+1

Until now...

git add -p likewise for staging lines (Grue mentioned that earlier)

Git add -p is nowhere close to as nice as a good git GUI.

I wonder if it's that these tools lead you to particular workflows, or that particular workflows lead you to these tools. I have never wanted to selectively stage lines, or selectively back out changes.

I suspect in part it may be a javascript frontend thing? The guy who does FE on my project, I feel like every commit he does touches 30 files minimum. It's not uncommon for a feature or a bug fix or whatever of mine to be 2-3 files.

My most commonly used git command line is "git commit -a -m mymessage"

which takes everything you got, adds it to the commit and commits it. I basically never even stage/unstage individual files.

There's a setting to chose how long you mouse over before it auto pops up. I personally find the auto pop up annoying but in general there's an option for almost anything you want from other editors and more is configured out of the box. That's why people like it. Its a piece of software so it's going to take some time to learn but if you're doing Java (ewwwww) it's far and away the best choice. Take a deep breath and get ready to be annoyed

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Yeah, I'll agree git add -p isn't as nice as a GUI but it works plenty well for the one time every two months that I use it

git commit -am

I just blew. Your. Mind.

What kind of witchcraft is this

I commit by each file. I like to state what each change is.