setup_for_hacking.sh/.bat - Run this tool to install shortcuts into your brackets app that make brackets use the HTML/CSS/JS files pulled from the GitHub repo.
restore_installed_build.sh/.bat - Removes the shortcuts installed by the first tool.
Here are the steps to setup Brackets for hacking (this applies to hacking on HTML/CSS/JS files only, and does not apply to hacking on brackets-shell).
Install the latest version of Brackets
Clone (or fork) the brackets github repo
On the Mac, run tools/setup_for_hacking.sh and pass the full path to Brackets.app. For example:
To restore Brackets back to the installed HTML/CSS/JS files, run the restore_installed_build script, passing the same value that was passed to setup_for_hacking.
Issue by gruehle Friday Sep 07, 2012 at 01:38 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/adobe/brackets/pull/1580
* Depends on adobe/brackets-shell#105** ***
Add a new
tools
directory with 2 new tools:Here are the steps to setup Brackets for hacking (this applies to hacking on HTML/CSS/JS files only, and does not apply to hacking on brackets-shell).
tools/setup_for_hacking.sh
and pass the full path to Brackets.app. For example:tools\setup_for_hacking.bat
and pass the directory that holds Brackets.exe. For example:To restore Brackets back to the installed HTML/CSS/JS files, run the
restore_installed_build
script, passing the same value that was passed tosetup_for_hacking
.gruehle included the following code: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/pull/1580/commits