Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH] Revert "completion: fix shell expansion of items"

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:54:52

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 08:11:52PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

Yeah, doing "git checkout jk/<tab>" is not working at all, and I noticed
the buggy commit is on the maint track, but has not yet been released.
I'm not sure of the solution, but I think we should do this in the
meantime:
Thanks.  Reverting is the right solution; it will leave a note in
the history why a seemingly simple patch was a bad idea to remind
us.

It is sad that existing test did not cover something fundamental
like this, though.  Anybody who's worked on completion wants to make
the test coverage better?
quoted hunk
-- >8 --
Subject: Revert "completion: fix shell expansion of items"

This reverts commit 25ae7cfd19c8f21721363c64163cd5d9d1135b20.

That patch does fix expansion of weird variables in some
simple tests, but it also seems to break other things, like
expansion of refs by "git checkout".

While we're sorting out the correct solution, we are much
better with the original bug (people with metacharacters in
their completions occasionally see an error message) than
the current bug (ref completion does not work at all).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
---
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 5a5b5a0..d743e56 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -225,13 +225,6 @@ fi
 fi
 fi
 
-# Quotes the argument for shell reuse
-__git_quote()
-{
-	local quoted=${1//\'/\'\\\'\'}
-	printf "'%s'" "$quoted"
-}
-
 # Generates completion reply with compgen, appending a space to possible
 # completion words, if necessary.
 # It accepts 1 to 4 arguments:
@@ -268,7 +261,7 @@ __gitcomp_nl ()
 __gitcomp_nl ()
 {
 	local IFS=$'\n'
-	COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$(__git_quote "$1")" -- "${3-$cur}"))
+	COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$1" -- "${3-$cur}"))
 }
 
 __git_heads ()
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