Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:45:26PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

quoted

It's not very convincing, because the bash completions script file for git 
is installed by default[1] which completes both forms, so the new user will 
experience instead:

git<space><tab><tab>.... what? 140-something commands? etc.etc.

No, the point of course is that you should get much less.

It offers 66 commands to me here, though it's still way too many - some
of them are clearly plumbing: count-objects, ls-tree, checkout-index?
Someone should submit a patch! ;-) (After eliminating these, this comes
down to 56 commands - which is still a lot, but the numbers are getting
somewhat sane already.)

I'm the reason why count-objects, ls-tree and checkout-index are
still offered by the bash completion.  And sitting here reading your
email I realized its been _months_ since I last called checkout-index
by hand.  I still run count-objects and ls-tree very so often, but the
average user probably doesn't use ls-tree.

So yea, these probably should be removed from the completion list.
But I can make a weak argument for keeping count-objects.

-- 
Shawn.