On 10/21/2010 04:50 AM, Peter van der Does wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:04:09 +0200
> SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Git's bash completion script offers possible arguments to some
>> options, e.g. it lists pretty formats after 'git log --pretty=<TAB>',
>> merge tools after 'git mergetool --tool=<TAB>', refs after 'git commit
>> --reuse-message=<TAB>', etc.
>>
>> On a three day old ubuntu 10.10 install these don't work anymore; the
>> completion script offers the list of files in all those cases.
>>
>> After a bit of investigation I found that when I press TAB after 'git
>> log --pretty=', then ${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]} contains '--pretty'
>> and ${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]} contains "=". Weird.
>>
>> Then I remembered that we had some COMP_WORDBREAKS issues in the past
>> (db8a9ff, bash completion: Resolve git show ref:path<tab> losing ref:
>> portion, 2008-07-15)). So I looked at my $COMP_WORDBREAKS, but didn't
>> see anything suspicious (it contains "'><=;|&(: ). Removing the '='
>> makes the listing after 'git log --pretty=' work, but breaks many
>> other things badly.
>>
>> I don't have any ideas what could possibly be wrong here (but it's too
>> late here for any bright ideas anyway...). Could someone confirm or
>> deny this behaviour on ubuntu 10.10?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gábor
>>
>
> My guess is that it has to do with Bash 4, the equal sign must be seen
> as a new word. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and have the same problem.
> I fixed the problem locally, I just don't know if that works on Bash 3
> and I doubt it will work on Bash 3.
>
> I changed the script only for git log, not other commands yet, like
> git am --whitespace=<tab><tab>
>
>
Same problem here.
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
$ shopt
autocd off
cdable_vars off
cdspell off
checkhash off
checkjobs off
checkwinsize on
cmdhist on
compat31 off
compat32 off
compat40 off
dirspell off
dotglob off
execfail off
expand_aliases on
extdebug off
extglob on
extquote on
failglob off
force_fignore on
globstar off
gnu_errfmt off
histappend on
histreedit off
histverify off
hostcomplete off
huponexit off
interactive_comments on
lithist off
login_shell off
mailwarn off
no_empty_cmd_completion off
nocaseglob off
nocasematch off
nullglob off
progcomp on
promptvars on
restricted_shell off
shift_verbose off
sourcepath on
xpg_echo off
-Mathias
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