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First of all: great tool!

The arguments in XCDependencyCommandInvocationRecord.commandLineArguments are unescaped (e.g. think of path with spaces), however, the command in the compile_commands.json espects a commandline and thus escaped arguments.

This creates a problem with paths with spaces, which get an invalid entry in the compilation database. As a quick fix, I added the following piece of code to EntriesForCompileCRecord:

NSMutableArray* escapedCLIArgs = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:CLIArgs.count];
    for(NSString* arg in CLIArgs)
    {
        NSString* escapedArg = [arg stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@"\\ "];
        [escapedCLIArgs addObject:escapedArg];
    }
    CLIArgs = [escapedCLIArgs copy];

A more robust fix might be more desirable tho. If you're fin with this, please let me know and I'll make a PR

This tool may need some work and testing to work with the latest Xcode releases and betas. See the discussion here for more info jerrymarino/SwiftVimTestHost#1

The point of this ticket is to make it easy for people to create compilation databases from Xcode. Write instructions and add scripts to do this.