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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Philippe Blain" <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>,
	"Britton Leo Kerin" <britton.kerin@gmail.com>,
	"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>,
	"Rubén Justo" <rjusto@gmail.com>,
	"Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>,
	"D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>,
	"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/3] completion: 'git diff' completes untracked paths as a last resort
Date: Fri,  7 Aug 2026 09:19:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260807161956.1004889-4-gitster@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260807161956.1004889-1-gitster@pobox.com>

We taught 'git diff' to first try to complete revisions (unless '--'
is present on the command line) and, failing that, to complete
tracked paths.  If this yields nothing, it lets the Bash default,
which offers paths in $PWD, kick in.

Teach it to complete untracked paths before giving up and letting
the Bash default kick in.  With this change,

    $ git -C another-directory diff un<TAB>

finds the 'untracked' file in another-directory and offers it as a
completion candidate.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |  4 ++++
 t/t9902-completion.sh                  | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 76181e8714..d35b4f3024 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1985,6 +1985,10 @@ _git_diff ()
 	if [ ${#COMPREPLY[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
 		__git_complete_index_file ""
 	fi
+
+	if [ ${#COMPREPLY[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+		__git_complete_index_file "--others --directory"
+	fi
 }
 
 __git_mergetools_common="diffuse diffmerge ecmerge emerge kdiff3 meld opendiff
diff --git a/t/t9902-completion.sh b/t/t9902-completion.sh
index 55361a89e1..85f92c552d 100755
--- a/t/t9902-completion.sh
+++ b/t/t9902-completion.sh
@@ -2663,6 +2663,7 @@ test_expect_success 'setup for integration tests' '
 	echo content >file1 &&
 	echo more >file2 &&
 	git add file1 file2 &&
+	echo untracked >ufile &&
 	git commit -m one &&
 	git branch mybranch &&
 	git tag mytag
@@ -2728,6 +2729,15 @@ test_expect_success 'git diff -- completes tracked paths' '
 	EOF
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'git diff [--] completes untracked paths, too' '
+	test_completion "git diff u" <<-\EOF &&
+	ufile
+	EOF
+	test_completion "git diff -- u" <<-\EOF
+	ufile
+	EOF
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'git -C <path> diff completes tracked paths in specified repo' '
 	test_when_finished "rm -rf repo-for-diff" &&
 	git init repo-for-diff &&
@@ -2744,11 +2754,21 @@ test_expect_success 'git -C <path> diff -- completes pathspecs in specified repo
 	test_when_finished "rm -rf repo-for-diff" &&
 	git init repo-for-diff &&
 	echo content >repo-for-diff/otherfile &&
+	echo untracked >repo-for-diff/untracked &&
 	git -C repo-for-diff add otherfile &&
 	git -C repo-for-diff commit -m otherfile &&
-	test_completion "git -C repo-for-diff diff -- o" <<-\EOF
+	test_completion "git -C repo-for-diff diff o" <<-\EOF &&
+	otherfile
+	EOF
+	test_completion "git -C repo-for-diff diff -- o" <<-\EOF &&
 	otherfile
 	EOF
+	test_completion "git -C repo-for-diff diff u" <<-\EOF &&
+	untracked
+	EOF
+	test_completion "git -C repo-for-diff diff -- u" <<-\EOF
+	untracked
+	EOF
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'show completes all refs' '
-- 
2.55.0-655-g8b87133eb9


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-07 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-03  0:58 [PATCH] completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff' Junio C Hamano
2026-08-03  1:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-08-03  5:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
2026-08-03 13:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-08-03 15:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-08-04 16:22 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2026-08-05 19:42 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] completion of 'git [-C <dir>] diff' Junio C Hamano
2026-08-05 19:42   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] completion: no-op refactoring of diff completion Junio C Hamano
2026-08-05 19:42   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff' Junio C Hamano
2026-08-05 19:42   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] completion: 'git diff' completes untracked paths as a last resort Junio C Hamano
2026-08-06 11:30     ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-08-06 15:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-08-06 11:30   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] completion of 'git [-C <dir>] diff' D. Ben Knoble
2026-08-07  1:38 ` [PATCH v4 " Junio C Hamano
2026-08-07  1:38   ` [PATCH v4 1/3] completion: no-op refactoring of diff completion Junio C Hamano
2026-08-07  6:15     ` Elijah Newren
2026-08-07 15:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-08-07  1:38   ` [PATCH v4 2/3] completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff' Junio C Hamano
2026-08-07  6:18     ` Elijah Newren
2026-08-07 11:02       ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-08-07 15:13       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-08-07 15:22         ` Elijah Newren
2026-08-07  1:38   ` [PATCH v4 3/3] completion: 'git diff' completes untracked paths as a last resort Junio C Hamano
2026-08-07  6:31   ` [PATCH v4 0/3] completion of 'git [-C <dir>] diff' Elijah Newren
2026-08-07 11:05     ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-08-07 16:19 ` [PATCH v5 " Junio C Hamano
2026-08-07 16:19   ` [PATCH v5 1/3] completion: no-op refactoring of diff completion Junio C Hamano
2026-08-07 16:19   ` [PATCH v5 2/3] completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff' Junio C Hamano
2026-08-07 16:19   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-08-07 16:53   ` [PATCH v5 0/3] completion of 'git [-C <dir>] diff' Elijah Newren

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