This is just a cute hack, but we can (easily) complete the parameter to --author or --committer in bash by asking for all possible authors or committers in this project from git log and offering them up as valid choices. We replace spaces with dots as this prevents names with spaces from appearing as two parameters rather than one, yet it still matches the space in the field. Currently my Mac OS X system takes ~5 seconds to compute the completions for --author on git.git and ~4 seconds to compute the completions for --committer on same. I imagine it would take longer on more active projects, but its a good way to see if the name you are entering is going to be unique or not. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index 8acfb09..b456a3b 100755 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -360,6 +360,26 @@ _git_log () { local cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}" case "$cur" in + --committer=*) + COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$(git log --pretty=raw --all \ + | sed -n -e "/^committer /{ + s/^committer // + s/ <.*// + s/ /./g + p + }")" -- "${cur##--committer=}")) + return + ;; + --author=*) + COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$(git log --pretty=raw --all \ + | sed -n -e "/^author /{ + s/^author // + s/ <.*// + s/ /./g + p + }")" -- "${cur##--author=}")) + return + ;; --pretty=*) COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W " oneline short medium full fuller email raw -- 1.4.4.1.ge3fb - 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