On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 12:34:40PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > > I can reproduce your problem, though the test you included passes for me > > even with the current tip of master. > > Oh, hrm. I think the issue is that completion.commands needs to be > set in the global (or system-wide) config, via test_config_global > rather than the local repo config which test_config sets. > > In hindsight, that seems obvious. But it's probably worth noting > that where completion.commands is documented, for anyone who might > spend a few cycles trying to configure it on a per-repo basis before > realizing it doesn't work. I think this is actually a bug. Normally code that is checking config before we've decide to do setup_git_directory() would use read_early_config(), which uses discover_git_directory() to tentatively see if we're in a repo, and if so to add it to the config sequence. But this code uses the caching configset mechanism. And that code (rightly) does not use read_early_config(), because it has no idea if it's being called early or what. I think we probably ought to be doing something like this: diff --git a/git.c b/git.c index 2dd588674f..ba3690245e 100644 --- a/git.c +++ b/git.c @@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ static int list_cmds(const char *spec) { struct string_list list = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP; int i; + int nongit; + + /* + * Set up the repository so we can pick up any repo-level config (like + * completion.commands). + */ + setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit); while (*spec) { const char *sep = strchrnul(spec, ','); > I'll leave it to those who know better to follow up with a change to > use string_list_split(). It's less of an improvement than I'd hoped, since most of the code is actually handling the "-" thing. So I don't think it's really worth the churn. But here's what it looks like for reference: --- help.c | 24 +++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/help.c b/help.c index 026f881715..9e4d258cb8 100644 --- a/help.c +++ b/help.c @@ -373,7 +373,9 @@ void list_cmds_by_category(struct string_list *list, void list_cmds_by_config(struct string_list *list) { - const char *cmd_list; + const char *cmd_str; + struct string_list cmd_list = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP; + int i; /* * There's no actual repository setup at this point (and even @@ -382,26 +384,22 @@ void list_cmds_by_config(struct string_list *list) * too since the caller (git --list-cmds=) should exit shortly * anyway. */ - if (git_config_get_string_const("completion.commands", &cmd_list)) + if (git_config_get_string_const("completion.commands", &cmd_str)) return; string_list_sort(list); string_list_remove_duplicates(list, 0); - while (*cmd_list) { - struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; - const char *p = strchrnul(cmd_list, ' '); + string_list_split(&cmd_list, cmd_str, ' ', -1); + for (i = 0; i < cmd_list.nr; i++) { + const char *cmd = cmd_list.items[0].string; - strbuf_add(&sb, cmd_list, p - cmd_list); - if (sb.buf[0] == '-') - string_list_remove(list, sb.buf + 1, 0); + if (*cmd == '-') + string_list_remove(list, cmd + 1, 0); else - string_list_insert(list, sb.buf); - strbuf_release(&sb); - while (*p == ' ') - p++; - cmd_list = p; + string_list_insert(list, cmd); } + string_list_clear(&cmd_list, 0); } void list_common_guides_help(void)