On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:31:19AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Yeah, doing "git checkout jk/<tab>" is not working at all, and I noticed > the buggy commit is on the maint track, but has not yet been released. > I'm not sure of the solution, but I think we should do this in the > meantime: > > -- >8 -- > Subject: Revert "completion: fix shell expansion of items" I agree with the revert, too. I looked into this issue, but quickly got lost in quoting-escaping hell. Ideally we could do some quoting in __gitcomp_nl(), so it would work for all kinds of input, but I couldn't come up with anything working. Alternatively, we could modify __gitcomp_nl()'s callers, or rather the helper functions supplying input to __gitcomp_nl() to do the quoting or escaping themselves. Actually, that's quite easy for local refs, at least, because for-each-ref's builtin quoting support does the trick: diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index c48cd19f..3dc1ec8c 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ __git_refs () refs="refs/tags refs/heads refs/remotes" ;; esac - git --git-dir="$dir" for-each-ref --format="%($format)" \ + git --git-dir="$dir" for-each-ref --shell --format="%($format)" \ $refs if [ -n "$track" ]; then # employ the heuristic used by git checkout With this change completion of local refs works well, even in the presence of branches ${foo.bar} and foo'bar. Unfortunately, there are many callsites for __gitcomp_nl(), and it is invoked with refs from remote repos, heads, tags, refspecs, remotes, config variables, symbols from ctags, or output from stash or ls-tree... although some of these are OK as they are now (remotes, config variables). 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