Re: Custom git completion

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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> An alias that uses another git subcommand (i.e. the ones that do not start
>> with a bang "!") seems to be handled correctly, but one of my aliases is
>> this:
>> 
>>     [alias]
>> 	lgm = "!sh -c 'GIT_NOTES_REF=refs/notes/amlog git log \"$@\" || :' -"
>
> Doing this is difficult, because its hard to parse that string and
> do completion on it.

That is why I said it is unfair to expect completion code to do that.

>   [completion]
>   	lgm = log
>
> and have `git lgm` complete using the same rules as `git log`.

I actually like that.  It matches _my_ expectation as a user to be able to
say "this subcommand has args that look like those given to 'log'".
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