Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] completion: simplify __git_remotes

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
>>
>> There's no need for all that complicated code that requires nullglob,
>> and the complexities related to such option.
>>
>> As an advantage, this would allow us to get rid of __git_shopt, which is
>> used only in this fuction to enable 'nullglob' in zsh.
>
> That is all a longwinded way to say "zsh doesn't support the same
> interface as bash for setting the nullglob option, so let's avoid
> it and use 'ls' which is simpler", right?

;-)

>> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
>> index 1496c6d..086e38d 100755
>> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
>> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
>> @@ -644,12 +644,7 @@ __git_refs_remotes ()
>>  __git_remotes ()
>>  {
>>  	local i ngoff IFS=$'\n' d="$(__gitdir)"
>> -	__git_shopt -q nullglob || ngoff=1
>> -	__git_shopt -s nullglob
>> -	for i in "$d/remotes"/*; do
>> -		echo ${i#$d/remotes/}
>> -	done
>> -	[ "$ngoff" ] && __git_shopt -u nullglob
>> +	test -d "$d/remotes" && ls -1 "$d/remotes"

Yeah, very nice reduction of unnecessary code.

The original loop might have been justifiable if it were doing something
more meaningful inside (e.g. making sure the file really describes a
remote), but as far as I can tell, it merely is a poor-man's emulation of
"ls -1".

You updated it to make the code say what it wanted to say in the way it
should have said from day one ;-).