2010/1/29 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx>: > The bash completion script already provides support to complete > aliases, options and refs for aliases (if the alias can be traced back > to a supported git command by __git_aliased_command()), and the user's > custom git commands, but it does not support the options of the user's > custom git commands (of course; how could it know about the options of > a custom git command?). Users of such custom git commands could > extend git's bash completion script by writing functions to support > their commands, but they might have issues with it: they might not > have the rights to modify a system-wide git completion script, and > they will need to track and merge upstream changes in the future. > > This patch addresses this by providing means for users to supply > custom completion scriplets for their custom git commands without > modifying the main git bash completion script. > > Instead of having a huge hard-coded list of command-completion > function pairs (in _git()), the completion script will figure out > which completion function to call based on the command's name. That > is, when completing the options of 'git foo', the main completion > script will check whether the function '_git_foo' is declared, and if > declared, it will invoke that function to perform the completion. If > such a function is not declared, it will fall back to complete file > names. So, users will only need to provide this '_git_foo' completion > function in a separate file, source that file, and it will be used the > next time they press TAB after 'git foo '. > > There are two git commands (stage and whatchanged), for which the > completion functions of other commands were used, therefore they > got their own completion function. > Excellent! This looks just like what I was after. Among other things, this is much better than my use of awk. ;o) -davidc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html