Re: bash completion broken on ubuntu 10.10?

[Peter van der Does <peter@avirtualhome.com>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:04:09 +0200
SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Git's bash completion script offers possible arguments to some
> options, e.g. it lists pretty formats after 'git log --pretty=<TAB>',
> merge tools after 'git mergetool --tool=<TAB>', refs after 'git commit
> --reuse-message=<TAB>', etc.
> 
> On a three day old ubuntu 10.10 install these don't work anymore; the
> completion script offers the list of files in all those cases.
> 
> After a bit of investigation I found that when I press TAB after 'git
> log --pretty=', then ${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]} contains '--pretty'
> and ${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]} contains "=".  Weird.
> 
> Then I remembered that we had some COMP_WORDBREAKS issues in the past
> (db8a9ff, bash completion: Resolve git show ref:path<tab> losing ref:
> portion, 2008-07-15)).  So I looked at my $COMP_WORDBREAKS, but didn't
> see anything suspicious (it contains "'><=;|&(: ).  Removing the '='
> makes the listing after 'git log --pretty=' work, but breaks many
> other things badly.
> 
> I don't have any ideas what could possibly be wrong here (but it's too
> late here for any bright ideas anyway...).  Could someone confirm or
> deny this behaviour on ubuntu 10.10?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Gábor
> 

My guess is that it has to do with Bash 4, the equal sign must be seen
as a new word. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and have the same problem.
I fixed the problem locally, I just don't know if that works on Bash 3
and I doubt it will work on Bash 3.

I changed the script only for git log, not other commands yet, like 
git am --whitespace=<tab><tab>


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