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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] completion: quote completions we find
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:58:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120927225809.GK10144@goldbirke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vy5jvnln5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:31:10PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 05:57:00PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> >> +		COMPREPLY[$i]="${COMPREPLY[$i]}$stripped"
> >
> > This reminded me to a mini-series collecting dust in my git repo,
> > which converts a few similar var=$var$something constructs to use the
> > += append operator instead.
> 
> Is the benefit of rewriting it to var+=$something large enough to
> worry about the below?

That way we can get rid of a subshell in __gitcomp(), which means one
less fork() during every command or option completion for Windows
folks.  We can also get rid of two subshells during loading the
completion script.

And I would spare myself from a couple of merge conflicts, too ;)


> > Now, Bash supports this += append operator since v3.1
> > (bash-3.1-alpha1, to be exact), which is around since July 2005, if I
> > can trust the mtime at ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/.  MSysgit ships
> > v3.1 so it already supports this, too.  So, what is the oldest Bash
> > version we care about for completion?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-20  2:15 [PATCH] completion: fix shell expansion of items Felipe Contreras
2012-09-20  1:46 ` Jeff King
2012-09-20 16:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 18:11   ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-20 18:21     ` Jeff King
2012-09-20 19:38       ` Felipe Contreras
2012-09-25  4:31     ` [PATCH] Revert "completion: fix shell expansion of items" Jeff King
2012-09-25 16:03       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-25 22:37       ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-25 23:28         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-26 21:46         ` Jeff King
2012-09-26 21:47           ` [PATCH 1/3] t9902: add a few basic completion tests Jeff King
2012-09-26 21:51           ` [PATCH 2/3] t9902: add completion tests for "odd" filenames Jeff King
2012-09-26 21:51           ` [PATCH 3/3] completion: improve shell expansion of items Jeff King
2012-09-26 21:57             ` [PATCH 4/3] completion: quote completions we find Jeff King
2012-09-27 21:40               ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-27 22:31                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-27 22:58                   ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2012-09-27  0:37             ` [PATCH 3/3] completion: improve shell expansion of items SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-27  6:28               ` Jeff King
2012-09-27  6:43                 ` Jeff King
2012-09-27 19:48                   ` Jeff King
2012-09-28 10:05                   ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-28 10:09                     ` [PATCH 1/5] completion: fix non-critical bugs in __gitcomp() tests SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-28 10:09                       ` [PATCH 2/5] completion: fix args of run_completion() test helper SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-28 18:04                         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-28 18:38                           ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-28 19:23                             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-28 19:30                               ` Jeff King
2012-09-28 19:49                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-28 19:55                                   ` Jeff King
2012-09-28 20:28                               ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-28 10:09                       ` [PATCH 3/5] completion: add tests for the __gitcomp_nl() completion helper function SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-28 10:09                       ` [PATCH 4/5] completion: test __gitcomp() and __gitcomp_nl() with expandable words SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-28 10:09                       ` [POC PATCH 5/5] completion: avoid compgen to fix expansion issues in __gitcomp_nl() SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-28 15:08                         ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-09-28 15:46                           ` Jeff King

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