Hello Shawn, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Uwe Kleine-Knig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > currently autocompletion in > > > > ukleinek@zentaur:~/gsrc/linux-2.6 git log ar<tab> > > > > only yields "armltd/" (i.e. the prefix of some remote tracking branches) > > but most of the time I want it to complete to "arch/". > > Right. It favors refs over paths. Why? Because I complete refs > more than I complete paths. > > > I don't understand that autocompletion stuff, but probably to fix that > > several __git_complete_revlist should be replaced by a > > __git_complete_revlist_or_path. The harder part is to implement the > > latter function. An optimal implementation would only give back paths > > if there is a "--" somewhere before the cursor. > > Its ugly, but if we only do path name completion after a -- then > we can just return "" as the options to bash, and it will go off > and do the path name completion itself. If we do path names and > and refs at the same time, that's a disaster waiting to happen. > We would have to do the path name completion ourselves. I thought compgen can be used for that: ukleinek@zentaur:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ compgen -f ar arch > How is this? I like it and have already applied it. > --8<-- > bash completion: Completely only path names after -- in options > > If the user has inserted a -- before the current argument we are > being asked to complete they are most likely trying to force Git into > treating this argument as a path name, and not as a ref. We should > allow bash to complete it as a path from the local working directory. > > Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-Knig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@xxxxxxxx> There is a letter missing in my name. I wonder why it's always the only non-ascii one :-) Best regards and thanks, Uwe -- Uwe Kleine-König, Software Engineer Digi International GmbH Branch Breisach, Küferstrasse 8, 79206 Breisach, Germany Tax: 315/5781/0242 / VAT: DE153662976 / Reg. Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 13962 -- 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
