Re: [PATCH] Contributed bash completion support for core Git tools.

[Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> the only gripe I have with it: whenever some options are added, or 
> removed, or renamed, you have to adapt the completion script. That is why 
> I started (ages ago) to auto-generate the completion script from the 
> documentation (of course, this means that the options have to be described 
> consistently in the documentation, which is good in its own).
> 
> Unfortunately, I never got around to finish it, but a preliminary version 
> is in the mailing list archives.

I was torn about putting options into the completion list.  Right now
"-l -b -f" are available for 'git checkout' but I think that was
a bad idea.  There's little point in offering completion for an
option which is a single character.  But that's my opinion and I'm
sure someone else might actually find it useful.

Longer options however such as "--since" or "--pretty=" with its
associated format options, or the merge strategy argument to "-s"
would all be nice to have completion support for.  However I did
not implement these.
 
> However, since your script works well, and I do not have a working script, 
> you clearly won! So, unless some kind soul actually implements my 
> proposal, I am happy with your script.

I was mainly getting tired of copying and pasting or retyping
branch names and remote names.  So that's what I implemented.
(And remote names aren't quite right as they don't tab complete
the ones available in .git/config.)

-- 
Shawn.