Re: [PATCH] completion: move private shopt shim for zsh to __git_ namespace

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On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 12:46:04AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> (culling cc list of quiet people :))
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> > Most zsh users probably probably do not expect a custom shopt function
> > to enter their environment just because they ran "source
> > ~/.git-completion.sh".
> >
> > Such namespace pollution makes development of other scripts confusing
> > (because it makes the bash-specific shopt utility seem to be available
> > in zsh) and makes git's tab completion script brittle (since any other
> > shell snippet implementing some other subset of shopt will break it).
> > Rename the shopt shim to the more innocuous __git_shopt to be a good
> > citizen (with two underscores to avoid confusion with completion rules
> > for a hypothetical "git shopt" command).
> 
> By the way, I meant the above[1] as a genuine patch submission.
> Thoughts?  Bugs?  Improvements?
> 
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172142/focus=172275

It surely won't be fun to debug such breakages, so:

Acked-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx>

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