So you have your own sbt plugin (or someone's plugin if you are not so cool and sexy) and you want to debug it.
It happens that there is nothing easier than that. If you run sbt through sbt-extras script (if you don't you should) just start your test sbt app with the plugin added to the build with the following command
sbt -jvm-debug 5005
You can use any port, I use 5005 because it's a default port for remote debug configuration in IntelliJ IDEA which I use for scala development.
And if you are cool and sexy, you know... :)
This is how your sbt console should look like after you start it:
[email protected] ~/projects/sbt-about-plugins $ sbt -jvm-debug 5005
Detected sbt version 0.12.3
Starting sbt: invoke with -help for other options
Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 5005
[info] Loading global plugins from /home/jozic/.sbt/plugins
[info] Loading project definition from /home/jozic/projects/sbt-about-plugins/project
[info] Set current project to sbt-about-plugins (in build file:/home/jozic/projects/sbt-about-plugins/)
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Then open your project in IDEA (you can generate IDEA project files using sbt-idea plugin) and create remote debug configuration.
You can change port, but 5005 will do in our case, so you literally can save default configuration.
Run it and you should get the following line in IDEA console:
Connected to the target VM, address: 'localhost:5005', transport: 'socket'
After that put a breakpoint inside your plugin command, switch to sbt console, run your command and here you go!
