Re: [PATCH v2] completion: add new git_complete helper

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Felipe Contreras wrote:

> Even more, I just added a foobar() function in my profile, and I also
> added a foobar() function in /etc/bash_completion.d/git. I don't see
> my function replaced in any way, even after typing and completing
> 'git' commands. I don't know how that's possible, but that's why I
> don't like to take these types of claims as face value.

What version of the bash_completion library do you use?  Lazy-loading
was introduced in version 1.90.

If you put

	foobar() {
		echo hi
	}
	. /etc/bash_completion

then is your private foobar unclobbered?

To answer your demand before for a function in the public interface of
a completion script, not library, which respects or does not respect
the bash-completion convention: see the public _rpm_installed_packages
helper from the rpm completion script[1].

If you don't like the convention or think that I have misunderstood
it, I can understand that and would recommend that you suggest a
different one and get it adopted and documented by the bash_completion
project.

Jonathan

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/bash-completion-devel/2012-March/004359.html