Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] completion: cleanup __gitcomp*

SZEDER Gábor wrote:

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:50:04AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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I imagine it would have been enough to say something along the lines of
"The __gitcomp and __gitcomp_nl functions are unnecessarily verbose.
__gitcomp_nl sets IFS to " \t\n" unnecessarily

Yeah, that's unnecessary.  I'm not sure why I did that, perhaps just
blindly followed suit of gitcomp_1(), without realizing that I don't
do any word-splitting in __gitcomp_nl() except when invoking compgen.

quoted

before setting it to "\n"
by mistake.

But that is deliberate, that's why it's called __gitcomp_nl(), see
a31e6262 (completion: optimize refs completion, 2011-10-15), third
paragraph.

Yep, sorry for the ambiguity.  I meant that setting IFS to " \t\n"
(before setting it to "\n") was not done for any serious reason.
The explanation is definitely clearer with "by mistake" dropped.

Thanks,
Jonathan