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From: David Rhodes Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>=
 wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> How does the completion code learn what options and arguments such a=
liases
>> and subcommands (e.g. "git foo") take without being told?
>
> Sure. =A0But the patch offered by the original poster also suffered
> from this problem, it didn't know how to complete arguments for
> the subcommand.
>

My patch allows custom completion code to be called if available. I
don't expect git completion to know anything about my new command.

-davidc