Re: [PATCH] contrib/completion: suppress stderror in bash completion of git remotes

[Matt Korostoff <mkorostoff@gmail.com>]

Here are some screen shots demonstrating the issue I'm describing here:

before this patch:
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1197335/6108333/1f3b10fa-b040-11e4-9164-3c7769dae110.gif

after this patch:
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1197335/6108340/3878cad0-b040-11e4-9994-dcd5c4d62bba.gif

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Matt Korostoff <mkorostoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> In some system configurations there is a bug with the
> __git_remotes function.  Specifically, there is a problem
> with line 415, `test -d "$d/remotes" && ls -1 "$d/remotes"`.
> While `test -d` is meant to prevent listing the remotes
> directory if it does not exist, in some system, `ls` will
> run regardless.
>
> This results in an error in which typing `git push or` + `tab`
> prints out `ls: .git/remotes: No such file or directory`.
> This can be fixed by simply directing stderror of this line
> to /dev/null.
> ---
>  contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> index 2fece98..72251cc 100644
> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ __git_refs_remotes ()
>  __git_remotes ()
>  {
>         local i IFS=$'\n' d="$(__gitdir)"
> -       test -d "$d/remotes" && ls -1 "$d/remotes"
> +       test -d "$d/remotes" && ls -1 "$d/remotes" 2>/dev/null
>         for i in $(git --git-dir="$d" config --get-regexp 'remote\..*\.url' 2>/dev/null); do
>                 i="${i#remote.}"
>                 echo "${i/.url*/}"
> --
> 1.7.10.2 (Apple Git-33)
>