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This is a developer QoL improvement, where running codegen will skip writing (and especially formatting) any files that were not changed. **Why?** While code generation in itself was pretty much instant, QL formatting of generated code was starting to take a long time. This made unconditionally running codegen quite annoying, for example before each test run as part of an IDE workflow or as part of the pre-commit hook. **How?** This was not completely straightforward as we could not work with the contents of the file prior to code generation as that was already post-processed by the QL formatting, so we had no chance of comparing the output of template rendering with that. We therefore store the hashes of the files _prior_ to QL formatting in a checked-in file (`swift/ql/.generated.list`). We can therefore load those hashes at the beginning of code generation, use them to compare the template rendering output and update them in this special registry file. **What else?** We also extend this mechanism to detect accidental modification of generated files in a more robust way. Before this patch, we were doing it with a rough regexp based heuristic. Now, we just store the hashes of the files _after_ QL formatting in the same checked file, so we can check that and stop generation if a generated file was modified, or a stub was modified without removing the `// generated` header.
CodeQL
This open source repository contains the standard CodeQL libraries and queries that power GitHub Advanced Security and the other application security products that GitHub makes available to its customers worldwide.
How do I learn CodeQL and run queries?
There is extensive documentation on getting started with writing CodeQL using the CodeQL extension for Visual Studio Code and the CodeQL CLI.
Contributing
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License
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Visual Studio Code integration
If you use Visual Studio Code to work in this repository, there are a few integration features to make development easier.
CodeQL for Visual Studio Code
You can install the CodeQL for Visual Studio Code extension to get syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, and code navigation for the QL language, as well as unit test support for testing CodeQL libraries and queries.
Tasks
The .vscode/tasks.json file defines custom tasks specific to working in this repository. To invoke one of these tasks, select the Terminal | Run Task... menu option, and then select the desired task from the dropdown. You can also invoke the Tasks: Run Task command from the command palette.