Re: [PATCH] bash-completion: fix getting strategy list

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I don't know if i somehow have some weird patch merged in, i tried to check
>> and didn't find anything, at least. But when i run git merge -s help i get:
>
> Yes, there are some weird patch in 'next'.  Miklos, could you fix the
> output format of that thing?

I do not think the code in 'next' that reuses the "help" thing to show
only the list to stdout while still giving the error message to stderr
makes any sense.

Let's do this.

---

 builtin-merge.c |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git c/builtin-merge.c w/builtin-merge.c
index 1f9389b..3e8db0d 100644
--- c/builtin-merge.c
+++ w/builtin-merge.c
@@ -110,9 +110,17 @@ static struct strategy *get_strategy(const char *name)
 		}
 	}
 	if (!is_in_cmdlist(&main_cmds, name) && !is_in_cmdlist(&other_cmds, name)) {
-
-		fprintf(stderr, "Could not find merge strategy '%s'.\n\n", name);
-		list_commands("strategies", longest, &main_cmds, &other_cmds);
+		fprintf(stderr, "Could not find merge strategy '%s'.\n", name);
+		fprintf(stderr, "Available strategies are:");
+		for (i = 0; i < main_cmds.cnt; i++)
+			fprintf(stderr, " %s", main_cmds.names[i]->name);
+		fprintf(stderr, ".\n");
+		if (other_cmds.cnt) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "Available custom strategies are:");
+			for (i = 0; i < other_cmds.cnt; i++)
+				fprintf(stderr, " %s", other_cmds.names[i]->name);
+			fprintf(stderr, ".\n");
+		}
 		exit(1);
 	}