From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] completion: move private shopt shim for zsh to __git_ namespace
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 00:46:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110506054604.GA13351@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110427212704.GB18596@elie>
(culling cc list of quiet people :))
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Most zsh users probably probably do not expect a custom shopt function
> to enter their environment just because they ran "source
> ~/.git-completion.sh".
>
> Such namespace pollution makes development of other scripts confusing
> (because it makes the bash-specific shopt utility seem to be available
> in zsh) and makes git's tab completion script brittle (since any other
> shell snippet implementing some other subset of shopt will break it).
> Rename the shopt shim to the more innocuous __git_shopt to be a good
> citizen (with two underscores to avoid confusion with completion rules
> for a hypothetical "git shopt" command).
By the way, I meant the above[1] as a genuine patch submission.
Thoughts? Bugs? Improvements?
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172142/focus=172275
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-06 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 1:26 [PATCH] git-completion: fix zsh support Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 1:35 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-27 1:42 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 4:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 6:40 ` [RFC/PATCH] completion: avoid "words" as variable name for zsh portability Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-27 8:42 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 9:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-27 9:49 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 9:59 ` John Szakmeister
2011-04-27 10:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 21:27 ` [PATCH] completion: move private shopt shim for zsh to __git_ namespace Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-27 22:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 23:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-06 5:46 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-05-06 8:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-05-08 10:48 ` SZEDER Gábor
2011-04-28 16:01 ` [RFC/PATCH] completion: avoid "words" as variable name for zsh portability SZEDER Gábor
2011-04-28 16:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] bash: don't modify the $cur variable in completion functions SZEDER Gábor
2011-04-28 16:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] bash: remove unnecessary _get_comp_words_by_ref() invocations SZEDER Gábor
2011-04-28 16:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] bash: don't declare 'local words' to make zsh happy SZEDER Gábor
2011-05-03 17:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-28 20:24 ` [RFC/PATCH] completion: avoid "words" as variable name for zsh portability Felipe Contreras
2011-04-28 20:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-28 21:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 8:20 ` [PATCH] git-completion: fix zsh support Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 16:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 17:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 2:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
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