When the completion script has to list only tags or only branches, it
uses the 'git for-each-ref' format 'refname:short', which makes sure
that all listed tags and branches are unambiguous. However,
disambiguating tags and branches in these cases is wrong, because:
- __git_tags(), the helper function listing possible tagname
arguments for 'git tag', lists an ambiguous tag
'refs/tags/ambiguous' as 'tags/ambiguous'. Its only consumer,
'git tag' expects its tagname argument to be under 'refs/tags/',
thus it interprets that abgiguous tag as
'refs/tags/tags/ambiguous'. Clearly wrong.
- __git_heads() lists possible branchname arguments for 'git branch'
and possible 'branch.<branchname>' configuration subsections.
Both of these expect branchnames to be under 'refs/heads/' and
misinterpret a disambiguated branchname like 'heads/ambiguous'.
Furthermore, disambiguation involves several stat() syscalls for each
tag or branch, thus comes at a steep cost especially on Windows and/or
when there are a lot of tags or branches to be listed.
Use the 'git for-each-ref' format 'refname:strip=2' instead of
'refname:short' to avoid harmful disambiguation of tags and branches
in __git_tags() and __git_heads().
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 882635f97..e129f674e 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -340,12 +340,12 @@ __git_index_files ()
__git_heads ()
{
- __git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads
+ __git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:strip=2)' refs/heads
}
__git_tags ()
{
- __git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags
+ __git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:strip=2)' refs/tags
}
# Lists refs from the local (by default) or from a remote repository.
--
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