Visual Studio (Microsoft ) Symbol server with git

Question

I am trying to set up Microsoft Symbol Server with git. I have searched around and found this

https://github.com/joliver/SourceServer-GitExtensions

I followed every single step of the instructions.

When I tried to to debug in I got pop up windows from Visual Studio

gitcontents.bat "[email protected]:Myconpany/Myproject.git (fetch)" "C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\SOURCE~1\bfef70fcb1efef501a09d451517a24f049383e28\.localRepo" 04898e9268d374a9a503e4c138b27f01b7553a3e "C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\SOURCE~1\bfef70fcb1efef501a09d451517a24f049383e28\04898e9268d374a9a503e4c138b27f01b7553a3e\codetest.cs"

And I ran the command I got this error

fatal: bad object 04898e9268d374a9a503e4c138b27f01b7553a3e

Not sure what went wrong. Is that because I have multiple branches, do i have to specify specific branch I want to fetch somethere?

This is the command I used to generate index

gitindex.cmd  -debug -source=<sourcedir> -symbols=<pdb file dir>

I tried to run these commands against my pdb (SymbolServerTests.pdb) file

Srctool.exe SymbolServerTests.pdb

[C:\data\Myrpoject\SymbolServerTests\SymbolServerTests\CodeTest.cs] cmd: gitcontents.bat "[email protected]:Myconpany/Myproject.git (fetch)" "C:\data\Myproject\bfef70fcb1efef501a09d451517a24f049383e28\.localRepo" 04898e9268d374a9a503e4c138b27f01b7553ae3 "C:\data\Myproject\bfef70fcb1efef501a0
9d451517a24f049383e28\04898e9268d374a9a503e4c138b27f01b7553a3e\codetest.cs"

SymbolServerTests.pdb: 1 source files are indexed

pdbstr -r -p:SymbolServerTests.pdb -s:srcsrv

SRCSRV: ini ------------------------------------------------
VERSION=1
INDEXVERSION=2
VERCTRL=Git
DATETIME=Thu Jan 26 10:53:05 2012
SRCSRV: variables ------------------------------------------
GIT_REPO_ID=bfef70fcb1efef501a09d451517a24f049383e28
[email protected]:Mycompany/Myproject.git (fetch)
GIT_EXTRACT_TARGET=%targ%\%GIT_REPO_ID%\%var2%\%fnfile%(%var1%)
GIT_EXTRACT_CMD=gitcontents.bat "%GIT_ORIGIN_NODE%" "%targ%\%GIT_REPO_ID%\.localRepo" %var2% "%git_extract_target%"
SRCSRVTRG=%GIT_extract_target%
SRCSRVCMD=%GIT_extract_cmd%
SRCSRV: source files ---------------------------------------
c:\data\myproject\symbolservertests\symbolservertests\codetest.cs*04898e9268d374a9a503e4c138b27f01b7553a3e
SRCSRV: end ------------------------------------------------

UPDATE : I think I got some improvement. I have the file checked out to this location.

C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\SOURCE~1\bfef70fcb1efef501a09d451517a24f049383e28\04898e9268d374a9a503e4c138b27f01b7553a3e\codetest.cs

But I got

Determining whether the checksum matches for the following locations: 1: C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\SOURCE~1\bfef70fcb1efef501a09d451517a24f049383e82\26348c09499b843558a4cc676c0d17a83327d56e\codetest.cs Checksum: MD5 {60 d6 36 20 c3 af c8 31 eb 32 50 3f 27 6b 2f d8} Checksum doesn't match.

Where the checksum in pdb has been calculated?

Answer 1

Perl scripts are too cryptic to deal with in my taste.

In this blog post i described the process of setting up Git support for Visual Studio source server with GitLink that uses plain ol' c# to index my symbols. It is an open source library that lives on GitHub.

This library let me set the method (in the .pdb file) for retrieving sources via PowerShell, which allows me to use query parameters in the request, unlike the tool used by default in Visual Studio debugger.

Answer 2

I've noticed the use of %published_artifacts_src% in the SourceIndexer code. Is this documented anywhere? I have started using it, and it seemed to be working, but now it is returning an empty path to the symbol server. Any clues as to why that might be?