From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>,
"Rubén Justo" <rjusto@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] completion: drop "stash save" completion altogether
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:06:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpkx08hyk.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0266646fb4e6eb4932ec728ce425af9886e5f146.1792761643.git.ben.knoble@gmail.com> (D. Ben Knoble's message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:20:55 -0400")
"D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com> writes:
> It's been deprecated since fd2ebf14db (stash: mark "git stash save"
> deprecated in the man page, 2017-10-22) and the previous commit removed
> further documentation suggesting to use it.
>
> Since we recommend push instead, stop completing for "save" and remove a
> special case in completion code. It still appears for "git stash <tab>"
> when GIT_COMPLETION_SHOW_ALL=1, and when typed explicitly we still
> complete options for
>
> git stash save --<tab>
>
> which is helpful for folks with finger-memory for save.
Well, if we can replace the command line to "git stash push --" on
the first <tab> and then start completing for "stash push" with the
second <tab>, it would be superb.
> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> index 697fef5462..9cd9c7cadb 100644
> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> @@ -3558,16 +3558,13 @@ _git_stash ()
> __git_resolve_builtins stash
>
> subcommands="$___git_resolved_builtins"
> - subcommand="$(__git_find_on_cmdline "$subcommands save")"
> + subcommand="$(__git_find_on_cmdline "$subcommands")"
>
> if [ -z "$subcommand" ]; then
> case "$((cword - __git_cmd_idx)),$cur" in
> *,--*)
> __gitcomp_builtin stash_push
> ;;
> - 1,sa*)
> - __gitcomp "save"
> - ;;
Nice to see this go. This would have been maintenance nightmare if
left forever as we will have to remember updating it when "sa" no
longer becomes a unique prefix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-23 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-12 17:48 [PATCH 0/5] stash completion miscellany D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-12 17:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] completion: simplify stash subcommand completion D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-16 8:01 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-19 19:58 ` Ben Knoble
2026-10-12 17:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] completion: extract common stash listing code D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-12 17:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] completion: fix Zsh handling of stash names D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-16 8:01 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-19 19:56 ` Ben Knoble
2026-10-12 17:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] doc: drop usage mentions of "git stash save" D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-16 8:01 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-12 17:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] completion: drop "stash save" completion altogether D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-16 8:01 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-19 20:01 ` Ben Knoble
2026-10-20 6:05 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-22 13:14 ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-23 6:21 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-23 13:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] stash completion miscellany D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-23 13:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] completion: simplify stash subcommand completion D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-23 13:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] Completion: extract common stash listing code D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-23 17:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-23 13:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] completion: fix Zsh handling of stash names D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-23 13:20 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] doc: drop usage mentions of "git stash save" D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-23 13:20 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] completion: drop "stash save" completion altogether D. Ben Knoble
2026-10-23 17:06 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-10-23 18:07 ` Ben Knoble
2026-10-23 14:33 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] stash completion miscellany Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-10-26 8:48 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-26 14:30 ` Junio C Hamano
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