RE: Re: Remove your ZSH completion in favor of the completion script distributed and maintained by ZSH

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On Sunday, July 7, 2024 10:47 AM, Doron Behar wrote:
>They don't perform any version checks as far as I can see in their implementation.
>
>Almost all commands that the ZSH team maintains completions for, don't perform
>version checks and the maintainers of the commands themselves don't bother
>taking responsibility for that and usually users don't complain. If a ZSH user notices
>a new command or new option missing from such a completion function, they can
>submit a patch to the ZSH project, and setup a workaround until there is a new ZSH
>release with their patch included.
>
>Besides the option of living with this potential version mismatch imperfection, you
>could also ask the ZSH team to remove their implementation and start maintain
>their implementation here. However, they might object because not all distributions
>will accommodate to this change in both projects...
>
>I personally think that Git is a stable enough project that the commands and
>options don't deviate enough between the different versions of it, So it'd be easier
>for you and for the distributions if you'd let go of your implementation.
>
>On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 04:15:53PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> On Jul 07 2024, Doron Behar wrote:
>>
>> > ZSH completion is almost always distributed with every distribution
>> > of ZSH, so there is no need for the two projects to maintain two
>> > completion functions for the same program :).
>>
>> How do they keep it in sync with the particular version of git
>> installed in the system?
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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>> AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
>>

There are frequent updates to the git CLI. Freezing ZSH completion at an older version may not be useful. If there is a version compatibility error during install, perhaps take this up with rpm or apt depending on your package manager. I am curious as to why ZSH is overriding git completions.