Hi, On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 09:55:28PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > I have an empty .git/remotes directory. Trying to complete the name of > a remote always reports an error: > > git@master:1023> git fetch <TAB>ls: invalid option -- ' ' > Try `ls --help' for more information. > > I have these: > > alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS' > and > LS_OPTIONS='-N --color=tty -T 0' > > I instrumented __git_remotes with set -x, which shows: > > git@master:1006> git fetch <TAB>+++ __gitdir > +++ '[' -z '' ']' > +++ '[' -n '' ']' > +++ '[' -n '' ']' > +++ '[' -d .git ']' > +++ echo .git > ++ local i 'IFS= > ' d=.git > ++ test -d .git/remotes > ++ ls '-N --color=tty -T 0' -1 .git/remotes > ls: invalid option -- ' ' > Try `ls --help' for more information. > ... > > Notice that the expansion of $LS_OPTIONS is not split at the blanks, > obviously, because $IFS does not contain a blank at that moment. > > The patch below helps, but it looks like a work-around rather than a > solution. Ideas? I've got two alternative solutions for this issue. The first one is less intrusive: use the 'command' builtin to tell the shell to ignore shell functions and aliases and just run the ls command. diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index be800e09..bcde9472 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ __git_refs_remotes () __git_remotes () { local i IFS=$'\n' d="$(__gitdir)" - test -d "$d/remotes" && ls -1 "$d/remotes" + test -d "$d/remotes" && command ls -1 "$d/remotes" for i in $(git --git-dir="$d" config --get-regexp 'remote\..*\.url' 2>/dev/null); do i="${i#remote.}" echo "${i/.url*/}" But then it got me thinking... Notice how much effort we spend just to get the list of remotes? We could just run 'git remote' directly instead... diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index be800e09..1daeaccf 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -369,12 +369,8 @@ __git_refs_remotes () __git_remotes () { - local i IFS=$'\n' d="$(__gitdir)" - test -d "$d/remotes" && ls -1 "$d/remotes" - for i in $(git --git-dir="$d" config --get-regexp 'remote\..*\.url' 2>/dev/null); do - i="${i#remote.}" - echo "${i/.url*/}" - done + local d="$(__gitdir)" + git --git-dir="$d" remote } __git_list_merge_strategies () I prefer the second one ;) 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