Re: [PATCH] completion: zsh: support completion after "git -C <path>"

["Lutz Lengemann" <lutz@lengemann.net>]

Hi

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026, at 14:13, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> No worries! Hope you enjoyed. (I didn't see v2 come in anywhere, but
> I'll keep my eye out.)

I pushed the new change to my github repo, and then the PullRequest here was 
updated: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2155/changes

> > and --git-dir and friends are spelled "--git-dir=-", which
> > accepts only "--git-dir=<path>", not the "--git-dir <path>" form.  I can
> > send patches for those separately.
> 
> We were discussing this recently in some threads about Bash
> completion, and I think we landed on "gitcli(1) really prefers the
> stuck form, and so do completion helpers, so let's stick with that for
> now" ?

Ok, sound good.

> > I tried that and it works, but it changes what -C offers, which is more
> > than fixing the completion after -C, so I left it out; happy to send it
> > on top.  Two things to watch out for there: the accumulated path has to
> > be made absolute, as -W with ".." gave me the directories of "/", and
> > the accumulation has to stop before the word that is being completed.
> 
> A follow-up is fine with me if you decide to send it (and if not,
> that's fine, too).

Lets see if Ican find the time for that ;)

Would really love to see the change in git, makes me a bit proud that I 
added something to the one application almost all developers use.

Regards

Lutz