Re: [PATCH] Contributed bash completion support for core Git tools.

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Since these are completion routines only for tools shipped with
core Git and since bash is a popular shell on many of the native
core Git platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD) including these
routines as part of the stock package would probably be convienent
for many users.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <redacted>

 contrib/bash-git-completion.sh |  330 +++++++++++++++...
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Hmph.  I tried this and found that I like "git pull ."
completion quite a bit.  Having said that:

I got hooked very fast on the completion for git pull, git checkout
and git fetch, especially on my local network where setting up
the SSH connection for a remote git-ls-remote isn't that much
of a performance hit.  Trying to use ref completion on the Git
repository itself on kernel.org was quite horrible.  But it does
(sort of) beat doing an ls-remote first.
 

 * If many people like it (like me), this may deserve to be
   outside contrib/

 * Otherwise, it would probably be better to place it in either
   contrib/bash/git-completion.sh (with potentially other
   bash-related things not just completion, but I do not know
   offhand what other kind of hooks would be useful) or
   contrib/completion/git-completion.bash (possibly with
   completion for other shells).

I'm not sure there are too many other things to hook into bash in
addition to completion so contrib/completion/git-completion.bash may
be the better location, assuming it doesn't graduate out of contrib/.

-- 
Shawn.