Re: [PATCH 0/2] completion of 'git [-C <dir>] checkout'

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

Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com> writes:

>> Le 11 août 2026 à 00:04, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> I did not, however, find any readily usable machinery in the
>> 'git-completion.bash' script that allows completing a path within an
>> arbitrary tree.  If such machinery were available, 'git checkout
>> other-branch foo<TAB>' could capture the output of 'git ls-tree -r
>> other-branch' and offer paths that begin with the given prefix.
>> 
>> Regardless, implementing this is beyond my 'git-completion-fu' right
>> now.  As I mentioned, I barely managed the 'diff' completion as a
>> monkey-see-monkey-do patch series, and I would welcome others
>> building on top of this once the dust settles.
>
> I do not know where it lives (and it may be Zsh-specific) [partly
> because I haven’t looked while on mobile], but I think there is
> support for completing « path » in « git show <tree>:», so there
> might be something to build on there.

I know where treeish:path<TAB> support is.  The thing is, it is not
a reusable machinery for "git checkout treeish path<TAB>".

Thanks.