Re: Bash tab completion for _git_fetch alias is broken on Git 1.7.7.1

So, this is a feature, not a bug... Tab completion for aliases is
really useful. It's important enough to me that I won't stop until
I've found a solution.
I can appreciate that _git_fetch is not currently meant to be called
directly, but we found a way to utilize it when it previously worked.
Perhaps the scope of these completion functions could be expanded to
allow for aliases? I'll attempt to submit a patch if someone can give
me approval.


Thanks,
Nathan


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] wrote:

Am 11/10/2011 4:21, schrieb Junio C Hamano:

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Nathan Broadbent [off-list ref] writes:

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Dear git mailing list,

I'm assigning the `_git_fetch` bash tab completion to the alias `gf`,
with the following command:

    complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_fetch gf

The tab completion then works fine in git 1.7.0.4, but breaks on git
1.7.7.1, with the following error:

We have been cooking for 1.7.8 and have the first release candidate
1.7.8-rc1; could you try it and report what you find out?

It looks like _git_fetch is not meant to be called directly. All git
completions must go through _git.

See also this post:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/13310/focus=13335

-- Hannes