Re: [PATCH] completion: add 'git history' subcommands

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 09:56:32PM +0200, Vincent Mailhol wrote:

quoted

Use the parse-options completion helpers for the "git history"
subcommands and their options. Complete positional arguments as
revisions, and add coverage for each kind of completion.

Ah, great! I wanted to write shell completion for git-history(1) for a
while but never really found the time to actually do it.

quoted

diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index e875787710..f10813c8d7 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash

@@ -2137,6 +2137,30 @@ _git_help ()
 	fi
 }
 
+_git_history ()
+{
+	local subcommands subcommand
+
+	__git_resolve_builtins "history"
+
+	subcommands="$___git_resolved_builtins"
+	subcommand="$(__git_find_subcommand "$subcommands")"
+
+	if [ -z "$subcommand" ]; then
+		__gitcomp "$subcommands"
+		return
+	fi

Okay. We first try to figure out whether there is any subcommand passed
by the user already. If not, we complete available subcommands.

This may be a tangent, but anyway.  I was looking at this patch (not
that I think I am capable of giving a completion patch a serious
review), comparing with other completions, and the similarity of the
boilerplate part above was so striking.  I suspect that these were
organically grown, but at some point when the tree is quiescent, can
we coalesce the completion routines for subcommands that share the
same pattern for better maintainability?

Thanks.