On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 02:20:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jul 2023 at 14:15, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I don't understand why your completion on "git am" should rely on > > *tracked* files. > > It doesn't. > > Read that email again. > > It fails on *untracked* files that are hidden from "git status" and > friends by our .gitignore pattern: > > *.mbx > > added by commit 534066a983df (".gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx") > > So when I have those old stale mbx files around, I don't see them, > because "git status" will happily say > > nothing to commit, working tree clean > > with no mention of those old turds. But the git am completion rules should actually *not* rely on git status output. At least in my opinion. > Really. Try it. I did and for me on this machine I don't have the problem: willy@pcw:~/linux$ git status On branch 20230702-nolibc-series1+2_2 Your branch is up to date with 'origin/20230702-nolibc-series1+2_2'. nothing to commit, working tree clean willy@pcw:~/linux$ echo blah > 2023-new-patch.mbx willy@pcw:~/linux$ git status On branch 20230702-nolibc-series1+2_2 Your branch is up to date with 'origin/20230702-nolibc-series1+2_2'. => .mbx is indeed ignored nothing to commit, working tree clean willy@pcw:~/linux$ git am -s --whitespace 2023-new-patch.mbx ^C Here I pressed [Tab] after "2023" and it automatically completed. By git completion is certainly quite old, as I really don't change it often once I have a satisfying one. My git-completion.bash script has this in case that helps: _git_am () { __git_find_repo_path if [ -d "$__git_repo_path"/rebase-apply ]; then __gitcomp "$__git_am_inprogress_options" return fi case "$cur" in --whitespace=*) __gitcomp "$__git_whitespacelist" "" "${cur##--whitespace=}" return ;; --*) __gitcomp_builtin am "--no-utf8" \ "$__git_am_inprogress_options" return esac } > > From a workflow perspective that makes no sense, > > as by definition, git am will consume only *untracked* files. > > I don't think you actually read my email. Yes I did and I neither experience your problem nor figure why it should happen, because I don't see the relation between gitignore and anything that git am should be allowed to consume :-/ Willy