With zsh, "git cmd path<TAB>" was completed to "git cmd path name"
when the completed path has a special character like SP in it,
without any attempt to keep "path name" a single filename. This
has been fixed to complete it to "git cmd path\ name" just like
Bash completion does.
* cy/zsh-completion-SP-in-path:
completion: treat results of git ls-tree as file paths
zsh: complete unquoted paths with spaces correctly
Let's say there are files named 'foo bar.txt', and 'abc def/test.txt' in
repository. When following commands trigger a completion:
git show HEAD:fo<Tab>
git show HEAD:ab<Tab>
The completion results in bash/zsh:
git show HEAD:foo bar.txt
git show HEAD:abc def/
Where the both of them have an unescaped space in paths, so they'll be
misread by git. All entries of git ls-tree either a filename or a
directory, so __gitcomp_file() is proper rather than __gitcomp_nl().
Note the commit f12785a3, which handles quoted paths properly. Like this
case, we should dequote $cur_ for ?*:* case. For example, let's say
there is untracked directory 'abc deg', then trigger a completion:
git show HEAD:abc\ de<Tab>
git show HEAD:'abc de<Tab>
git show HEAD:"abc de<Tab>
should uniquely complete 'abc def', but bash completes 'abc def' and
'abc deg' instead. In zsh, triggering a completion:
git show HEAD:abc\ def/<Tab>
should complete 'test.txt', but nothing comes. The both problems will be
resolved by dequoting paths.
__git_complete_revlist_file() passes arguments to __gitcomp_nl() where
the first one is a list something like:
abc def/Z
foo bar.txt Z
where Z is the mark of the EOL.
- The trailing space of blob in __git ls-tree | sed.
It makes the completion results become:
git show HEAD:foo\ bar.txt\ <CURSOR>
So git will try to find a file named 'foo bar.txt ' instead.
- The trailing slash of tree in __git ls-tree | sed.
It makes the completion results on zsh become:
git show HEAD:abc\ def/ <CURSOR>
So that the last space on command like should be removed on zsh to
complete filenames under 'abc def/'.
Signed-off-by: Chayoung You <yousbe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The following is the description of -Q flag of zsh compadd [1]:
This flag instructs the completion code not to quote any
metacharacters in the words when inserting them into the command
line.
Let's say there is a file named 'foo bar.txt' in repository, but it's
not yet added to the repository. Then the following command triggers a
completion:
git add fo<Tab>
git add 'fo<Tab>
git add "fo<Tab>
The completion results in bash:
git add foo\ bar.txt
git add 'foo bar.txt'
git add "foo bar.txt"
While them in zsh:
git add foo bar.txt
git add 'foo bar.txt'
git add "foo bar.txt"
The first one, where the pathname is not enclosed in quotes, should
escape the space with a backslash, just like bash completion does.
Otherwise, this leads git to think there are two files; foo, and
bar.txt.
The main cause of this behavior is __gitcomp_file_direct(). The both
implementions of bash and zsh are called with an argument 'foo bar.txt',
but only bash adds a backslash before a space on command line.
[1]: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Completion-Widgets.html
Signed-off-by: Chayoung You <yousbe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The support for format-patch (and send-email) by the command-line
completion script (in contrib/) has been simplified a bit.
* nd/complete-format-patch:
completion: use __gitcomp_builtin for format-patch
The command line completion machinery (in contrib/) has been
updated to allow the completion script to tweak the list of options
that are reported by the parse-options machinery correctly.
* nd/completion-negation:
completion: fix __gitcomp_builtin no longer consider extra options
This helps format-patch gain completion for a couple new options,
notably --range-diff.
Since send-email completion relies on $__git_format_patch_options
which is now reduced, we need to do something not to regress
send-email completion.
The workaround here is implement --git-completion-helper in
send-email.perl just as a bridge to "format-patch --git-completion-helper".
This is enough to use __gitcomp_builtin on send-email (to take
advantage of caching).
In the end, send-email.perl can probably reuse the same info it passes
to GetOptions() to generate full --git-completion-helper output so
that we don't need to keep track of its options in git-completion.bash
anymore. But that's something for another boring day.
Helped-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git mergetool" learned to take the "--[no-]gui" option, just like
"git difftool" does.
* dl/mergetool-gui-option:
doc: document diff/merge.guitool config keys
completion: support `git mergetool --[no-]gui`
mergetool: accept -g/--[no-]gui as arguments
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anmol Mago <anmolmago@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Ho <briankyho@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Lu <david.lu97@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryan Wang <shirui.wang@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
__gitcomp_builtin() has the main completion list provided by
git xxx --git-completion-helper
but the caller can also add extra options that is not provided by
--git-completion-helper. The only call site that does this is "git
difftool" completion.
This support is broken by b221b5ab9b (completion: collapse extra
--no-.. options - 2018-06-06), which adds a special value "--" to mark
that the rest of the options can be hidden by default. The commit
forgets the fact that extra options are appended after
"$(git xxx --git-completion-helper)", i.e. after this "--", and will
be incorrectly hidden as well.
Prepend the extra options before "$(git xxx --git-completion-helper)"
to avoid this.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach bash completion that "git fetch --multiple" only takes remote
names as arguments and no refspecs.
* nd/complete-fetch-multiple-args:
completion: support "git fetch --multiple"
Also remove git-cherry from Bash completion because plumbing
commands do not belong there.
Signed-off-by: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since stash list accepts git-log options, add the following useful
options that make sense in the context of the `git stash list` command:
--name-status --oneline --patch-with-stat
Signed-off-by: Steven Fernandez <steve@lonetwin.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When --multiple is given, the remaining arguments are remote names,
not one remote followed by zero or more refspec. Detect this case,
disable refspec completion, and pretend no remote is seen in order to
complete multiple of them.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After using this command extensively for the last two months, this
developer came to the conclusion that even if the dual color mode still
leaves a lot of room for confusion about what was actually changed, the
non-dual color mode is substantially worse in that regard.
Therefore, we really want to make the dual color mode the default.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tab completion of `git range-diff` is very convenient, especially
given that the revision arguments to specify the commit ranges to
compare are typically more complex than, say, what is normally passed
to `git log`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continuing with the idea to programmatically enumerate various
pieces of data required for command line completion, the codebase
has been taught to enumerate options prefixed with "--no-" to
negate them.
* nd/completion-negation:
completion: collapse extra --no-.. options
completion: suppress some -no- options
parse-options: option to let --git-completion-helper show negative form
"git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a
nickname for remote groups, and the completion script (in contrib/)
has been taught about it.
* ls/complete-remote-update-names:
completion: complete remote names too
Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various
pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the
codebase to report the list of configuration variables
subcommands care about to help complete them.
* nd/complete-config-vars:
completion: complete general config vars in two steps
log-tree: allow to customize 'grafted' color
completion: support case-insensitive config vars
completion: keep other config var completion in camelCase
completion: drop the hard coded list of config vars
am: move advice.amWorkDir parsing back to advice.c
advice: keep config name in camelCase in advice_config[]
fsck: produce camelCase config key names
help: add --config to list all available config
fsck: factor out msg_id_info[] lazy initialization code
grep: keep all colors in an array
Add and use generic name->id mapping code for color slot parsing
Work around zsh segfaulting when loading git-completion.zsh
* sg/completion-zsh-workaround:
completion: correct zsh detection when run from git-completion.zsh
v2.18.0-rc0~90^2 (completion: reduce overhead of clearing cached
--options, 2018-04-18) worked around a bug in bash's "set" builtin on
MacOS by using compgen instead. It was careful to avoid breaking zsh
by guarding this workaround with
if [[ -n ${ZSH_VERSION-}} ]]
Alas, this interacts poorly with git-completion.zsh's bash emulation:
ZSH_VERSION='' . "$script"
Correct it by instead using a new GIT_SOURCING_ZSH_COMPLETION shell
variable to detect whether git-completion.bash is being sourced from
git-completion.zsh. This way, the zsh variant is used both when run
from zsh directly and when run via git-completion.zsh.
Reproduction recipe:
1. cd git/contrib/completion && cp git-completion.zsh _git
2. Put the following in a new ~/.zshrc file:
autoload -U compinit; compinit
autoload -U bashcompinit; bashcompinit
fpath=(~/src/git/contrib/completion $fpath)
3. Open zsh and "git <TAB>".
With this patch:
Triggers nice git-completion.bash based tab completion
Without:
contrib/completion/git-completion.bash:354: read-only variable: QISUFFIX
zsh:12: command not found: ___main
zsh:15: _default: function definition file not found
_dispatch:70: bad math expression: operand expected at `/usr/bin/g...'
Segmentation fault
Reported-by: Rick van Hattem <wolph@wol.ph>
Reported-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commands that make use of --git-completion-helper feature could
now produce a lot of --no-xxx options that a command can take. This in
many case could nearly double the amount of completable options, using
more screen estate and also harder to search for the wanted option.
This patch attempts to mitigate that by collapsing extra --no-
options, the ones that are added by --git-completion-helper and not in
original struct option arrays. The "--no-..." option will be displayed
in this case to hint about more options, e.g.
> ~/w/git $ git clone --
--bare --origin=
--branch= --progress
--checkout --quiet
--config= --recurse-submodules
--depth= --reference=
--dissociate --reference-if-able=
--filter= --separate-git-dir=
--hardlinks --shallow-exclude=
--ipv4 --shallow-since=
--ipv6 --shallow-submodules
--jobs= --shared
--local --single-branch
--mirror --tags
--no-... --template=
--no-checkout --upload-pack=
--no-hardlinks --verbose
--no-tags
and when you complete it with --no-<tab>, all negative options will be
presented:
> ~/w/git $ git clone --no-
--no-bare --no-quiet
--no-branch --no-recurse-submodules
--no-checkout --no-reference
--no-config --no-reference-if-able
--no-depth --no-separate-git-dir
--no-dissociate --no-shallow-exclude
--no-filter --no-shallow-since
--no-hardlinks --no-shallow-submodules
--no-ipv4 --no-shared
--no-ipv6 --no-single-branch
--no-jobs --no-tags
--no-local --no-template
--no-mirror --no-upload-pack
--no-origin --no-verbose
--no-progress
Corner case: to make sure that people will never accidentally complete
the fake option "--no-..." there must be one real --no- in the first
complete listing even if it's not from the original struct option.
PS. This could could be made simpler with ";&" to fall through from
"--no-*" block and share the code but ";&" is not available on bash-3
(i.e. Mac)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
bit more consolidated to allow more automation.
* nd/command-list:
completion: allow to customize the completable command list
completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
completion: reduce completable command list
completion: let git provide the completable command list
command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
Remove common-cmds.h
help: use command-list.h for common command list
generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
"git remote update" accepts both groups and single remotes.
Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete pathnames
for various commands better.
* sg/complete-paths:
t9902-completion: exercise __git_complete_index_file() directly
completion: don't return with error from __gitcomp_file_direct()
completion: fill COMPREPLY directly when completing paths
completion: improve handling quoted paths in 'git ls-files's output
completion: remove repeated dirnames with 'awk' during path completion
t9902-completion: ignore COMPREPLY element order in some tests
completion: use 'awk' to strip trailing path components
completion: let 'ls-files' and 'diff-index' filter matching paths
completion: improve handling quoted paths on the command line
completion: support completing non-ASCII pathnames
completion: simplify prefix path component handling during path completion
completion: move __git_complete_index_file() next to its helpers
t9902-completion: add tests demonstrating issues with quoted pathnames
There are 581 config variables as of now when you do "git config
<tab>" which can fill up a few screens and is not very helpful when
you have to look through columns of text to find what you want.
This patch instead shows you only first level when you do
git config <tab>
There are 78 items, which use up 8 rows in my screen. Compared to
screens of text, it's pretty good. Once you have chosen you first
level, e.g. color:
git config color.<tab>
will show you all color.*
This is not a new idea. branch.* and remote.* completion already does
this for second and third levels. For those variables, you'll need to
<tab> three times to get full variable name.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Config variables are case-insensitive but this case/esac construct is
case-sensitive by default. For bash v4, it'll be easy. For platforms
that are stuck with older versions, we need an external command, but
that is not that critical. And where this additional overhead matters
the most is Windows, but luckily Git for Windows ships with Bash v4.
Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The last patch makes "git config <tab>" shows camelCase names because
that's what's in the source: config.txt. There are still a couple
manual var completion in this code. Let's make them follow the naming
convention as well.
In theory we could automate this part too because we have the
information. But let's stick to one step at a time and leave this for
later.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new help option --config-for-completion is a machine friendlier
version of --config where all the placeholders and wildcards are
dropped, leaving only the good, completable prefixes for
git-completion.bash to consume.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/command-list:
completion: allow to customize the completable command list
completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
completion: reduce completable command list
completion: let git provide the completable command list
command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
Remove common-cmds.h
help: use command-list.h for common command list
generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
When 7fb6aefd2a (Merge branch 'nd/parseopt-completion' - 2018-03-14)
is merged, the completion for negative form is left out because the
series is alread long and it could be done in a follow up series. This
is it.
--git-completion-helper now provides --no-xxx so that git-completion.bash
can drop the extra custom --no-xxx in the script. It adds a lot more
--no-xxx than what's current provided by the git-completion.bash
script. We'll trim that down later.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load
custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a
custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using
newer version of bash.
* fg/completion-external:
completion: load completion file for external subcommand
"git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole
topology of commit graph elsewhere.
* js/rebase-recreate-merge:
rebase -i --rebase-merges: add a section to the man page
rebase -i: introduce --rebase-merges=[no-]rebase-cousins
pull: accept --rebase=merges to recreate the branch topology
rebase --rebase-merges: avoid "empty merges"
sequencer: handle post-rewrite for merge commands
sequencer: make refs generated by the `label` command worktree-local
rebase --rebase-merges: add test for --keep-empty
rebase: introduce the --rebase-merges option
rebase-helper --make-script: introduce a flag to rebase merges
sequencer: fast-forward `merge` commands, if possible
sequencer: introduce the `merge` command
sequencer: introduce new commands to reset the revision
git-rebase--interactive: clarify arguments
sequencer: offer helpful advice when a command was rescheduled
sequencer: refactor how original todo list lines are accessed
sequencer: make rearrange_squash() a bit more obvious
sequencer: avoid using errno clobbered by rollback_lock_file()
By default we show porcelain, external commands and a couple others
that are also popular. If you are not happy with this list, you can
now customize it a new config variable.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By providing aliases via --list-cmds=, we could simplify command
collection code in the script. We only issue one git command. Before
this patch that is "git config", after it's "git --list-cmds=". In
"git help" completion case we actually reduce one "git" process (for
getting guides) but that call was added in this series so it does not
really count.
A couple of bash functions are removed because they are not needed
anymore. __git_compute_all_commands() and $__git_all_commands stay
because they are still needed for completing pager.* config and
without "alias" group, the result is still cacheable.
There is a slight (good) change in _git_help() with this patch: before
"git help <tab>" shows external commands (as in _not_ part of git) as
well as part of $__git_all_commands. We have finer control over
command listing now and can exclude that because we can't provide a
man page for external commands anyway.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of maintaining a separate list of command classification,
which often could go out of date, let's centralize the information
back in git.
While the function in git-completion.bash implies "list porcelain
commands", that's not exactly what it does. It gets all commands (aka
--list-cmds=main,others) then exclude certain non-porcelain ones. We
could almost recreate this list two lists list-mainporcelain and
others. The non-porcelain-but-included-anyway is added by the third
category list-complete.
Note that the current completion script incorrectly classifies
filter-branch as porcelain and t9902 tests this behavior. We keep it
this way in t9902 because this test does not really care which
particular command is porcelain or plumbing, they're just names.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The help command currently hard codes the list of guides and their
summary in C. Let's move this list to command-list.txt. This lets us
extract summary lines from Documentation/git*.txt. This also
potentially lets us list guides in git.txt, but I'll leave that for
now.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is part of the effort to break down and provide commands by
category in machine-readable form. This could be helpful later on when
completion script switches to use --list-cmds for selecting
completable commands. It would be much easier for the user to choose
to complete _all_ commands instead of the default selection by passing
different values to --list-cmds in git-completino.bash.
While at there, replace "git help -a" in git-completion.bash with
--list-cmds since it's better suited for this task.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even if these are hidden options, let's make them a bit more generic
since we're introducing more listing types shortly. The code is
structured to allow combining multiple listing types together because
we will soon add more types the 'builtins'.
'parseopt' remains separate because it has separate (SPC) to match
git-completion.bash needs and will not combine with others.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In __gitcomp_file_direct() we tell Bash that it should handle our
possible completion words as filenames with the following piece of
cleverness:
# use a hack to enable file mode in bash < 4
compopt -o filenames +o nospace 2>/dev/null ||
compgen -f /non-existing-dir/ > /dev/null
Unfortunately, this makes this function always return with error
when it is not invoked in real completion, but e.g. in tests of
't9902-completion.sh':
- First the 'compopt' line errors out
- either because in Bash v3.x there is no such command,
- or because in Bash v4.x it complains about "not currently
executing completion function",
- then 'compgen' just silently returns with error because of the
non-existing directory.
Since __gitcomp_file_direct() is now the last command executed in
__git_complete_index_file(), that function returns with error as well,
which prevents it from being invoked in tests directly as is, and
would require extra steps in test to hide its error code.
So let's make sure that __gitcomp_file_direct() doesn't return with
error, because in the tests coming in the following patch we do want
to exercise __git_complete_index_file() directly,
__gitcomp_file() contains the same construct, and thus it, too, always
returns with error. Update that function accordingly as well.
While at it, also remove the space from between the redirection
operator and the filename in both functions.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught that "git
stash save" has been deprecated ("git stash push" is the preferred
spelling in the new world) and does not offer it as a possible
completion candidate when "git stash push" can be.
* tg/demote-stash-save-in-completion:
completion: make stash -p and alias for stash push -p
completion: stop showing 'save' for stash by default
The completion script (in contrib/) learned to clear cached list of
command line options upon dot-sourcing it again in a more efficient
way.
* sg/completion-clear-cached:
completion: reduce overhead of clearing cached --options
Precompute and store information necessary for ancestry traversal
in a separate file to optimize graph walking.
* ds/commit-graph:
commit-graph: implement "--append" option
commit-graph: build graph from starting commits
commit-graph: read only from specific pack-indexes
commit: integrate commit graph with commit parsing
commit-graph: close under reachability
commit-graph: add core.commitGraph setting
commit-graph: implement git commit-graph read
commit-graph: implement git-commit-graph write
commit-graph: implement write_commit_graph()
commit-graph: create git-commit-graph builtin
graph: add commit graph design document
commit-graph: add format document
csum-file: refactor finalize_hashfile() method
csum-file: rename hashclose() to finalize_hashfile()
Adding external subcommands to Git is as easy as to put an executable
file git-foo into PATH. Packaging such subcommands for a Linux
distribution can be achieved by unpacking the executable into /usr/bin
of the user's system. Adding system-wide completion scripts for new
subcommands, however, can be a bit tricky.
Since bash-completion started to use dynamical loading of completion
scripts since v1.90 (preview of v2.0), it is no longer sufficient to
drop a completion script of a subcommand into the standard completions
path, /usr/share/bash-completion/completions, since this script will not
be loaded if called as a git subcommand.
For example, look at https://bugs.gentoo.org/544722. To give a short
summary: The popular git-flow subcommand provides a completion script,
which gets installed as /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git-flow.
If you now type into a Bash shell:
git flow <TAB>
You will not get any completions, because bash-completion only loads
completions for git and git has no idea that git-flow is defined in
another file. You have to load this script manually or trigger the
dynamic loader with:
git-flow <TAB> # Please notice the dash instead of whitespace
This will not complete anything either, because it only defines a Bash
function, without generating completions. But now the correct completion
script has been loaded and the first command can use the completions.
So, the goal is now to teach the git completion script to consider the
possibility of external completion scripts for subcommands, but of
course without breaking current workflows.
I think the easiest method is to use a function that was defined by
bash-completion v1.90, namely _completion_loader. It will take care of
loading the correct script if present. Afterwards, the git completion
script behaves as usual.
_completion_loader was introduced in commit 20c05b43 of bash-completion
(https://github.com/scop/bash-completion.git) back in 2011, so it should
be available in even older LTS distributions. This function searches for
external completion scripts not only in the default path
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions, but also in the user's home
directory via $XDG_DATA_HOME and in a user specified directory via
$BASH_COMPLETION_USER_DIR.
The only "drawback" (if it even can be called as such) is, that if
_completion_loader does not find a completion script, it automatically
registers a minimal function for basic path completion. In practice,
however, this will not matter, because in this case the given command is
a git command in its dashed form, e.g. 'git-diff-index', and those have
been deprecated for a long time.
This way we can leverage bash-completion's dynamic loading for git
subcommands and make it easier for developers to distribute custom
completion scripts.
Signed-off-by: Florian Gamböck <mail@floga.de>
Acked-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The correct name in git-send-email.perl is aliasfiletype [1]. There are
actually two instances of this misspelling. The other was found and
fixed in 6068ac8848 (completion: add missing configuration variables -
2010-12-20)
[1] 994d6c66d3 (send-email: address expansion for common mailers - 2006-05-14)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to the `preserve` mode simply passing the `--preserve-merges`
option to the `rebase` command, the `merges` mode simply passes the
`--rebase-merges` option.
This will allow users to conveniently rebase non-trivial commit
topologies when pulling new commits, without flattening them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Once upon a time, this here developer thought: wouldn't it be nice if,
say, Git for Windows' patches on top of core Git could be represented as
a thicket of branches, and be rebased on top of core Git in order to
maintain a cherry-pick'able set of patch series?
The original attempt to answer this was: git rebase --preserve-merges.
However, that experiment was never intended as an interactive option,
and it only piggy-backed on git rebase --interactive because that
command's implementation looked already very, very familiar: it was
designed by the same person who designed --preserve-merges: yours truly.
Some time later, some other developer (I am looking at you, Andreas!
;-)) decided that it would be a good idea to allow --preserve-merges to
be combined with --interactive (with caveats!) and the Git maintainer
(well, the interim Git maintainer during Junio's absence, that is)
agreed, and that is when the glamor of the --preserve-merges design
started to fall apart rather quickly and unglamorously.
The reason? In --preserve-merges mode, the parents of a merge commit (or
for that matter, of *any* commit) were not stated explicitly, but were
*implied* by the commit name passed to the `pick` command.
This made it impossible, for example, to reorder commits. Not to mention
to move commits between branches or, deity forbid, to split topic branches
into two.
Alas, these shortcomings also prevented that mode (whose original
purpose was to serve Git for Windows' needs, with the additional hope
that it may be useful to others, too) from serving Git for Windows'
needs.
Five years later, when it became really untenable to have one unwieldy,
big hodge-podge patch series of partly related, partly unrelated patches
in Git for Windows that was rebased onto core Git's tags from time to
time (earning the undeserved wrath of the developer of the ill-fated
git-remote-hg series that first obsoleted Git for Windows' competing
approach, only to be abandoned without maintainer later) was really
untenable, the "Git garden shears" were born [*1*/*2*]: a script,
piggy-backing on top of the interactive rebase, that would first
determine the branch topology of the patches to be rebased, create a
pseudo todo list for further editing, transform the result into a real
todo list (making heavy use of the `exec` command to "implement" the
missing todo list commands) and finally recreate the patch series on
top of the new base commit.
That was in 2013. And it took about three weeks to come up with the
design and implement it as an out-of-tree script. Needless to say, the
implementation needed quite a few years to stabilize, all the while the
design itself proved itself sound.
With this patch, the goodness of the Git garden shears comes to `git
rebase -i` itself. Passing the `--rebase-merges` option will generate
a todo list that can be understood readily, and where it is obvious
how to reorder commits. New branches can be introduced by inserting
`label` commands and calling `merge <label>`. And once this mode will
have become stable and universally accepted, we can deprecate the design
mistake that was `--preserve-merges`.
Link *1*:
https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/blob/master/share/msysGit/shears.sh
Link *2*:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/master/shears.sh
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano
Chayoung You
Duy Nguyen
Denton Liu
Daniels Umanovskis
Steven Fernandez
Johannes Schindelin
SZEDER Gábor
Łukasz Stelmach
Florian Gamböck