Re: [BUG] Autocompletion fails with "bash: words: bad array subscript"

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:13:11PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> This happens if I try use ctrl-shift-r (reverse-i-search) for the
> string `git commit -am "S`, resulting in the following:
> 
> (reverse-i-search)`git commit -am "S': git commit -am "Set new Melange
> version number to 2-0-20110501 in app.yaml.template."
> 
> If I then hit tab, I get:
> 
> $ bash: words: bad array subscriptversion number to 2-0-20110501 in
> app.yaml.template."

I can reproduce it here pretty easily.

> Hitting tab again gives:
> 
> bash: words: bad array subscript
> 
> Display all 3032 possibilities? (y or n)
> 
> I have no clue how to debug this, other than that it doesn't happen if
> I don't source ~/code/git/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash.
> 
> Anyone have any idea's?

You can try "set -x" which will show you what was executing. Of course
that will spew pages of output. So you'll want to use something like
"script", or if you're man enough, "exec 2>stderr" and then do the whole
thing blind. ;)

It looks like we set $cword too low at some point, as the problematic
code seems to be:

  + upargs+=(-v $vprev "${words[cword - 1]}")
  bash: words: bad array subscript

but I haven't figured out yet where that happens.

-Peff