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Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] completion: hide dotfiles for selected path completion

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-23 23:48:25

"Zakariyah Ali via GitGitGadget" [off-list ref] writes:
The completion helper for index paths uses git ls-files rather than shell
filename completion. As a result, leading-dot paths such as a tracked
.gitignore were offered even when the user had not started the path with ..
I was reviewing the draft of the What's Cooking report and noticed  
that this topic is among a handful of stalled efforts going nowhere.

I think we are still waiting for a hopefully small and final update
(v4) to conclude this topic for close to a month, without any news.
Will we see an update anytime soon?  If not, let me mark the topic
to be discarded in my draft of the whats-cooking report.

Thanks.
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