{"thread":{"id":"10443","subject":"UI and git-completion.sh","startedAt":"2007-10-23T21:46:17Z","lastAt":"2007-10-24T17:34:57Z","messageCount":13,"participants":["Paolo Ciarrocchi","Steven Grimm","Randal L. Schwartz","Matthieu Moy","Brian Downing","Johannes Schindelin","Pierre Habouzit","Johannes Gilger"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"57029","messageId":"20071023234617.45a4fc64@paolo-desktop","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Paolo Ciarrocchi","fromEmail":"paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-10-23T21:46:17Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-23T21:46:17Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi all,\nI just asked for help on the #git irc channel in order to install\nthe .git-completion.sh script (thanks nessundorma) and after using it \nfor a while I started wondering why I cannot find any reference to it the \nofficial documentation.\nThe only important think that git grep found is:\n\tpaolo@paolo-desktop:~/git$ git grep completion *\n\tDocumentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt: - Bash completion scripts have been updated heavily.\nShouldn't it be mentioned somewhere? \n\nI know that newbies are somehow scared by the following:\n\tpaolo@paolo-desktop:~/git$ git-\n\tDisplay all 151 possibilities? (y or n)\nWhat? Do I have to learn 151 commands?\nNo way!\n\nUsing the git-completation script it all boils down to 48 commands.\n\npaolo@paolo-desktop:~/git$ git \nadd fetch rebase \nam filter-branch rebase--interactive \nannotate format-patch relink \napply fsck remote \narchive gc repack \nbisect get-tar-commit-id request-pull \nblame grep reset \nbranch gui resolve \nbundle imap-send revert \ncheckout init rm \ncheckout-index instaweb send-email \ncherry log shortlog \ncherry-pick lost-found show \ncitool ls-files show-branch \nclean ls-remote show-ref \nclone ls-tree stash \ncommit merge status \nconfig mergetool submodule \nconvert-objects mv tag \ncount-objects name-rev var \ndescribe pickaxe verify-pack \ndiff pull whatchanged \ndiff-stages push\n\nAnd I think I can remove some commands from the list.\n\nWhat people think about starting suggesting the usage of the script in the documentation?\nI just want to know the opinion of the list before trying to write a documentation patch.\nNext step would be to reduce the number of the items listed by git but I know there is \nalready a discussion about it on the list.\n\nRegards,\n\t\tPaolo\n"},{"id":"57030","messageId":"471E6EF0.2060403@midwinter.com","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"20071023234617.45a4fc64@paolo-desktop","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Steven Grimm","fromEmail":"koreth@midwinter.com","sentAt":"2007-10-23T22:00:16Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-23T22:00:16Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"koreth@midwinter.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/71b4d2e8b62f168bdc9e9205341159e3567003b4f9e2127c617c5fa0a1f5bad2?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:\n> What people think about starting suggesting the usage of the script in the documentation?\n> \nAlso might be worth mentioning the zsh completion support. (I know it's \nthere, but haven't used it -- maybe its author would care to describe it \na bit?)\n\n-Steve\n"},{"id":"57037","messageId":"86ve8x9z1f.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"471E6EF0.2060403@midwinter.com","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Randal L. Schwartz","fromEmail":"merlyn@stonehenge.com","sentAt":"2007-10-23T23:44:28Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-23T23:44:28Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"merlyn@stonehenge.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/dc528d210743ff0333e6213f9ee7b33b23f1b7bc1f3c5a8c2d819074ecd7ab19?d=mp&s=160"},"body":">>>>> \"Steven\" == Steven Grimm writes:\n\nSteven> Also might be worth mentioning the zsh completion support. (I know it's there,\nSteven> but haven't used it -- maybe its author would care to describe it a bit?)\n\nWhere is it? I'm a zsh user, and would love to have git support.\n\n-- \nRandal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095\n \nPerl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.\nSee PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!\n"},{"id":"57039","messageId":"vpqir4xgzep.fsf@bauges.imag.fr","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"86ve8x9z1f.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Matthieu Moy","fromEmail":"matthieu.moy@imag.fr","sentAt":"2007-10-23T23:54:38Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-23T23:54:38Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"git@matthieu-moy.fr","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14709?v=4"},"body":"merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:\n\n>>>>>> \"Steven\" == Steven Grimm writes:\n>\n> Steven> Also might be worth mentioning the zsh completion support. (I know it's there,\n> Steven> but haven't used it -- maybe its author would care to describe it a bit?)\n>\n> Where is it? I'm a zsh user, and would love to have git support.\n\nIn zsh itself.\n\nCompletion/Unix/Command/_git\n\n-- \nMatthieu\n"},{"id":"57040","messageId":"86prz59y9s.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"vpqir4xgzep.fsf@bauges.imag.fr","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Randal L. Schwartz","fromEmail":"merlyn@stonehenge.com","sentAt":"2007-10-24T00:01:03Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-24T00:01:03Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"merlyn@stonehenge.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/dc528d210743ff0333e6213f9ee7b33b23f1b7bc1f3c5a8c2d819074ecd7ab19?d=mp&s=160"},"body":">>>>> \"Matthieu\" == Matthieu Moy writes:\n\nMatthieu> In zsh itself.\n\nMatthieu> Completion/Unix/Command/_git\n\nNot in my version of zsh. Any chance I can add that to my 4.2.3 installation?\n\n-- \nRandal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095\n \nPerl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.\nSee PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!\n"},{"id":"57043","messageId":"86d4v59wvt.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"471E91C9.3000004@midwinter.com","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Randal L. Schwartz","fromEmail":"merlyn@stonehenge.com","sentAt":"2007-10-24T00:31:02Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-24T00:31:02Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"merlyn@stonehenge.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/dc528d210743ff0333e6213f9ee7b33b23f1b7bc1f3c5a8c2d819074ecd7ab19?d=mp&s=160"},"body":">>>>> \"Steven\" == Steven Grimm writes:\n\nSteven> And I think we've just proven that more documentation is required\nSteven> here! (I have no idea how to enable it myself; I just know I've seen\nSteven> it mentioned on the list from time to time.)\n\nYes, so what is the process of adding the git zsh completion to any relatively\nstable version of zsh? Someone here must know.\n\n-- \nRandal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095\n \nPerl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.\nSee PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!\n"},{"id":"57045","messageId":"vpqbqapgx0j.fsf@bauges.imag.fr","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"86prz59y9s.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Matthieu Moy","fromEmail":"matthieu.moy@imag.fr","sentAt":"2007-10-24T00:46:20Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-24T00:46:20Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"git@matthieu-moy.fr","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14709?v=4"},"body":"merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:\n\n>>>>>> \"Matthieu\" == Matthieu Moy writes:\n>\n> Matthieu> In zsh itself.\n>\n> Matthieu> Completion/Unix/Command/_git\n>\n> Not in my version of zsh. Any chance I can add that to my 4.2.3\n> installation?\n\nhttp://zsh.cvs.sourceforge.net/zsh/zsh/Completion/Unix/Command/_git\n\nTry adding it to your $fpath, hopefully, the new _git doesn't use the\nother new zsh features, and it will work (I have a CVS _git with a\n4.3.4 zsh, and it works like a charm).\n\n-- \nMatthieu\n"},{"id":"57046","messageId":"868x5t9w02.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"vpqbqapgx0j.fsf@bauges.imag.fr","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Randal L. Schwartz","fromEmail":"merlyn@stonehenge.com","sentAt":"2007-10-24T00:50:05Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-24T00:50:05Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"merlyn@stonehenge.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/dc528d210743ff0333e6213f9ee7b33b23f1b7bc1f3c5a8c2d819074ecd7ab19?d=mp&s=160"},"body":">>>>> \"Matthieu\" == Matthieu Moy writes:\n\nMatthieu> http://zsh.cvs.sourceforge.net/zsh/zsh/Completion/Unix/Command/_git\n\nMatthieu> Try adding it to your $fpath, hopefully, the new _git doesn't use the\nMatthieu> other new zsh features, and it will work (I have a CVS _git with a\nMatthieu> 4.3.4 zsh, and it works like a charm).\n\nDo I add it as _git below my $fpath? Or do I need to put it into a subdir?\nHow will it know it is there?\n\n-- \nRandal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095\n \nPerl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.\nSee PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!\n"},{"id":"57047","messageId":"20071024005549.GC24924@lavos.net","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"86d4v59wvt.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Brian Downing","fromEmail":"bdowning@lavos.net","sentAt":"2007-10-24T00:55:49Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-24T00:55:49Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bdowning@lavos.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/366426?v=4"},"body":"On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 05:31:02PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:\n> Yes, so what is the process of adding the git zsh completion to any\n> relatively stable version of zsh? Someone here must know.\n\nI dunno the \"right\" way to do it, but I had this in my .zshrc file that\nI presumably cargo-culted from somewhere:\n\n fpath=( $HOME/.zsh/compfuncs $fpath )\n\nSo in addition to that, doing:\n\n wget -O ~/.zsh/compfuncs/_git 'http://zsh.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/zsh/zsh/Completion/Unix/Command/_git'\n\nmight get you something. I guess if your zsh is too old it might be\nincompatible with the completion script, though...\n\n-bcd\n"},{"id":"57048","messageId":"20071024005711.GD24924@lavos.net","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"20071024005549.GC24924@lavos.net","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Brian Downing","fromEmail":"bdowning@lavos.net","sentAt":"2007-10-24T00:57:11Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-24T00:57:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bdowning@lavos.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/366426?v=4"},"body":"On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:55:49PM -0500, Brian Downing wrote:\n> I dunno the \"right\" way to do it, but I had this in my .zshrc file that\n> I presumably cargo-culted from somewhere:\n> \n> fpath=( $HOME/.zsh/compfuncs $fpath )\n\nI think this has to come before \"compinit\" or whatever starts up the new\ncompletion engine.\n\n-bcd\n"},{"id":"57069","messageId":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0710241113190.25221@racer.site","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"20071023234617.45a4fc64@paolo-desktop","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2007-10-24T10:20:07Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-24T10:20:07Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\nOn Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:\n\n> Using the git-completation script it all boils down to 48 commands.\n> \n> paolo@paolo-desktop:~/git$ git \n> add fetch rebase \n> am filter-branch rebase--interactive \n> annotate format-patch relink \n> apply fsck remote \n> archive gc repack \n> bisect get-tar-commit-id request-pull \n> blame grep reset \n> branch gui resolve \n> bundle imap-send revert \n> checkout init rm \n> checkout-index instaweb send-email \n> cherry log shortlog \n> cherry-pick lost-found show \n> citool ls-files show-branch \n> clean ls-remote show-ref \n> clone ls-tree stash \n> commit merge status \n> config mergetool submodule \n> convert-objects mv tag \n> count-objects name-rev var \n> describe pickaxe verify-pack \n> diff pull whatchanged \n> diff-stages push\n\ndiff-stages just struck my eye. It is no longer in git... But AFAICS it \nis no longer in git-completion.bash either.\n\nBesides, I think that the number of commands could be reduced further. \nFor example, I think that a regular user does not want to see\n\ncheckout-index, citool, convert-objects, filter-branch, get-tar-commit-id, \nimap-send, instaweb, lost-found, ls-tree, name-rev, rebase--interactive, \nrelink, repack, request-pull, show-ref, var, verify-pack and whatchanged.\n\nThis list was not vs the quoted list, but my current list (pretty much tip \nof Shawn's \"next\".\n\nNote: I would like to complete the _options_ when one of these subcommands \nwas specified, but I just do not want to see them when entering \n\"git\".\n\nBTW Pierre's idea of generating many (if not all) of these completions on \nthe fly (maybe with \"--help-completion\"?) is intriguing.\n\nCiao,\nDscho\n"},{"id":"57085","messageId":"20071024170706.GA29387@artemis.corp","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0710241113190.25221@racer.site","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Pierre Habouzit","fromEmail":"madcoder@debian.org","sentAt":"2007-10-24T17:07:06Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-24T17:07:06Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"madcoder@debian.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/44708?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:20:07AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:\n> BTW Pierre's idea of generating many (if not all) of these completions on \n> the fly (maybe with \"--help-completion\"?) is intriguing.\n\n To be fair, it's not my idea, I'm just bought to it.\n\n-- \n·O· Pierre Habouzit\n··O madcoder@debian.org\nOOO http://www.madism.org\n"},{"id":"57088","messageId":"471F8241.50308@hackvalue.de","threadId":"10443","inReplyTo":"86ve8x9z1f.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com","subject":"Re: UI and git-completion.sh","fromName":"Johannes Gilger","fromEmail":"heipei@hackvalue.de","sentAt":"2007-10-24T17:34:57Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-24T17:34:57Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"heipei@hackvalue.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6072?v=4"},"body":"Randal L. Schwartz wrote:\n> Where is it? I'm a zsh user, and would love to have git support.\n> \n\nAnother way to get git-completion support with zsh (works with 4.3.2) is to use \nthe existing bash-completion and enable bash-completion for zsh via:\nautoload bashcompinit\nbashcompinit\nin your .zshrc or similar. Btw, if you use gentoo you can install git with bash-completion, \nalthough i suppose that most people here are not using emerge to get their git ;).\n\nGreetings,\nJohannes\n\n-- \nJohannes Gilger \nhttp://hackvalue.de/heipei/\nGPG-Key: 0x42F6DE81\nGPG-Fingerprint: BB49 F967 775E BB52 3A81 882C 58EE B178 42F6 DE81\n"}]}