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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] bash: Remove short option completions for branch/checkout/diff.
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:49:48 -0800
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> [Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]
>
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> The short options (-l, -f, -d) for git-branch are rather silly to
>> include in the completion generation as these options must be fully
>> typed out by the user and most users already know what the options
>> are anyway, so including them in the suggested completions does
>> not offer huge value. =A0(The same goes for git-checkout and git-dif=
f.)
>
> Not true. It is nice to have on "git branch -" TAB TAB list of all=20
> (well, all included in completion) short options to git-branch.
>
> So I'd vote NAK.

Ah, sorry, but it's already done.

I tried "git branch <TAB>" and saw hundreds of possibilities
offered, and thought mixing -d/-l and friends are useless.  I
didn't think of the possibility of saying "git branch -<TAB>".

Presumably it was trying to suggest the <start-point> argument
but that does not make much sense actually either.