Re: Zsh completion regression

SZEDER Gábor [off-list ref] wrote:

However.

While playing around with zsh, I noticed that git completion works
without even sourcing git's bash completion script.  As it turned out,
zsh ships its own git completion script[1], and from my cursory tests
it seems to be quite capable: it supports commands, aliases, options,
refs, ref1..ref2, config variables, ...  and I also saw a __git_ps1()
equivalent for zsh.

So, is there any reason why you are still using git's bash completion
under zsh (which has some quirks and lacks some features) instead of
zsh's own?  Perhaps it would make sense to point zsh users to zsh's
git completion and drop zsh compatibility from git's bash completion.
We did similar with vim config files: git included a vim syntax
highlight config file for commit messages under contrib/vim/, but
eventually we dropped it after vim started shipping more capable
git-specific config files (for git config files, rebase instruction
sheets, etc.).

Last time I compared the two, the bash completion script was a lot more
complete and powerful. The zsh script had a few annoying limitations for
things that I use every day, and that worked with the bash script, so I
switched to that. Unfortunately I forgot the details, it's a while ago.


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Stefan Haller
Berlin, Germany
http://www.haller-berlin.de/