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Add a helper function to start GDB that was already attached to the current process #1915

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This should help debugging.

When debugging Git, the criss-cross spawning of processes can make
things quite a bit difficult, especially when a Unix shell script is
thrown in the mix that calls a `git.exe` that then segfaults.

To help debugging such things, we introduce the `open_in_gdb()` function
which can be called at a code location where the segfault happens (or as
close as one can get); This will open a new MinTTY window with a GDB
that already attached to the current process.

Inspired by Derrick Stolee.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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LGTM. Thanks!

@dscho dscho merged commit 2c70487 into git-for-windows:master Nov 7, 2018
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