Re: [PATCH 00/12] completion: speed up refs completion

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On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:36 AM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I haven't had a chance to further investigate, but I tried this series
>>> out (from your github) and it appears that this series (or the
>>> previous series for __gitdir work) breaks "git log" ref completion.
>>> I'll have further details when I am able to investigate a it more.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jake
>>
>> At first I had the same problem, but I verified by re-installing the
>> completion script and the problem appears to have gone away. I suspect
>> what happened is that the original time, I forgot to actually install
>> the new version of git, and only installed the completion script, so
>> when some of the commands were run with new options they (silently)
>> failed and the result was missing completion values.
>>
>> Once I properly re-installed everything it appears to work as
>> expected. I haven't found any other issues yet.
>
> Thanks, that's good to hear.
>
> Still, I'm a bit puzzled as to what exactly might have caused your
> problem.  Considering new options:
>
>   - the __gitdir()-related series added the 'git rev-parse
>     --absolute-git-dir' option, but only ever used it if you invoked
>     completion after 'git -C some/where'.
>
>  - The refs completion speedup didn't add any new options but started
>    to use two that it previously didn't:
>
>    - 'git for-each-ref --sort=<key>' option, but that's with us since
>      the earliest ever 'for-each-ref' version from more than a decade
>      ago...
>
>    - 'git for-each-ref' format modifier 'strip=2', which was
>      introduced in v2.7.1~15^2 (tag: do not show ambiguous tag names
>      as "tags/foo", 2016-01-25), only about a year ago.  Were you
>      using a pre-2.7.1 version when seeing the problems?
>
> Gábor

Nope. I was using some version of next at some point recently (less
than a couple months old). I do not know exactly what caused it, and
I'm not really able to find out because I can't reproduce it any more.
(after a fresh make install).

Thanks,
Jake




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