On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:48:51PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > 2012/4/13 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:12:36AM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:57:03AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > >> > +. "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash" > >> > + > >> > +_get_comp_words_by_ref () > >> > +{ > >> > + while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do > >> > + case "$1" in > >> > + cur) > >> > + cur=${_words[_cword]} > >> > + ;; > >> > + prev) > >> > + prev=${_words[_cword-1]} > >> > + ;; > >> > + words) > >> > + words=("${_words[@]}") > >> > + ;; > >> > + cword) > >> > + cword=$_cword > >> > + ;; > >> > + esac > >> > + shift > >> > + done > >> > +} > >> > >> Git's completion script already implements this function. Why > >> override it here? > > > > Ah, ok, I think I got it. > > > > Of course, the words on the command line must be specified somehow to > > test completion functions. But the two implementations of > > _get_comp_words_by_ref() for bash and zsh in the completion script > > take the words on the command line from different variables, so we > > need a common implementation to test completion functions both on bash > > and zsh. Hence the _get_comp_words_by_ref() above, which takes the > > words on the command line and their count from $_words and $_cword, > > respectively, and run_completion() below, which fills those variables > > with its arguments. > > Well, yeah, that's one reason, but also I don't see the point in > trying to fill the internal bash completion variables, maybe there > would be some conflicts? Plus, the bash version of > _get_comp_words_by_ref is rather complicated, so I decided to start > with something simple that I could understand and see exactly what's > going on. And for zsh I would definitely prefer to override > _get_comp_words_by_ref than to mess with the internal variables, > although I haven't found a way to test completion for zsh. The tests are run in a non-interactive shell, which by default doesn't load bash completion with its complicated _get_comp_words_by_ref(). So these tests use _get_comp_words_by_ref() from git's completion script. Anyway, out of curiosity I quickly tried this on top of b8574ba7 (i.e. your patch from today's pu): diff --git a/t/t9902-completion.sh b/t/t9902-completion.sh index 3bbec79b..6c1ea956 100755 --- a/t/t9902-completion.sh +++ b/t/t9902-completion.sh @@ -27,27 +27,6 @@ complete () . "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash" -_get_comp_words_by_ref () -{ - while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do - case "$1" in - cur) - cur=${_words[_cword]} - ;; - prev) - prev=${_words[_cword-1]} - ;; - words) - words=("${_words[@]}") - ;; - cword) - cword=$_cword - ;; - esac - shift - done -} - print_comp () { local IFS=$'\n' @@ -56,10 +35,10 @@ print_comp () run_completion () { - local -a COMPREPLY _words - local _cword - _words=( $1 ) - (( _cword = ${#_words[@]} - 1 )) + local -a COMPREPLY COMP_WORDS + local COMP_CWORD + COMP_WORDS=( $1 ) + (( COMP_CWORD = ${#COMP_WORDS[@]} - 1 )) _git && print_comp } i.e. to set COMP_WORDS and COMP_CWORD in run_completion() and it worked. However, I agree that it feels iffy to mess with a shell-specific variable, and I'm afraid that this just happened to work on my system, but it might be broken in previous or future bash versions. Best, Gábor -- 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