Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I rebased the changes onto the latest 'next' because if this branch gets > merged into 'next', there'll be merge conflicts from > 'dl/complete-submodule-absorbgitdirs'. Please don't do that. A topic that depends on everything in 'next' cannot graduate to 'master' until everything that is cooking in 'next' does. When - the "conflict" that would arise is so trivial to resolve, - there is no semantic crashes between the new topic and existing ones, and - the topic is usable even before other topics graduate (or even when they get discarded) please make it a habit to avoid making your topic (i.e. this one) hostage to another topic (i.e. the absorbgitdirs one), and certainly not hostage to the whole of 'next'. A trivial conflict resolution in this case, if you revert the rebasing and then attempt to merge the result to 'next', would look like this. diff --cc contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index 8b3b5a9d34,de56879960..0000000000 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@@ -2573,7 -2573,7 +2573,7 @@@ _git_submodule ( { __git_has_doubledash && return - local subcommands="add status init deinit update set-branch summary foreach sync" - local subcommands="add status init deinit update summary foreach sync absorbgitdirs" ++ local subcommands="add status init deinit update set-branch summary foreach sync absorbgitdirs" local subcommand="$(__git_find_on_cmdline "$subcommands")" if [ -z "$subcommand" ]; then case "$cur" in By the way, if conflicts worry you so much, one thing you could do is this. Instead of maintaining the ever-growing list of subcommands and having to worry about textual conflicts, the completion script could use a clean-up to reduce the need of textual conflict resolution, when it is quiescent, perhaps like this (I am assuming that in some future, there is a quiescent period _after_ both of these two topics landed, and this illustration patch is to be used in such a future). Merging two topics, each of which adds a new element by inserting a new line with the element (and the element alone) is on it, is certainly a lot easier and simpler than having to see what word is getting inserted by each topic on a single long string on a line. contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index 0fccadfc97..5d7d4ebacc 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -2573,7 +2573,18 @@ _git_submodule () { __git_has_doubledash && return - local subcommands="add status init deinit update set-branch summary foreach sync absorbgitdirs" + local subcommands=" + add + status + init + deinit + update + set-branch + summary + foreach + sync + absorbgitdirs + " local subcommand="$(__git_find_on_cmdline "$subcommands")" if [ -z "$subcommand" ]; then case "$cur" in