[PATCH] completion: fix completion after 'git --option <TAB>'

Git's bash completion currently doesn't work when certain git options are specified, e.g. 'git --no-pager <TAB>' errors out with "error: invalid key: alias.--no-pager".

The main _git() completion function finds out the git command name by looping through all the words on the command line and searching for the first word that is not a known option for the git command. Unfortunately the list of known git options was not updated in a long time, and newer options are not skipped but mistaken for a git command. Such a misrecognized "command" is then passed to __git_aliased_command(), which in turn passes it to a 'git config' query, hence the error.

Currently the following options are misrecognized for a git command:

  -c --no-pager --exec-path --html-path --man-path --info-path
  --no-replace-objects --work-tree= --namespace=

To fix this we could just update the list of options to be skipped, but the same issue will likely arise, if the git command learns a new option in the future. Therefore, to make it more future proof against new options, this patch changes that loop to skip all option-looking words, i.e. words starting with a dash.

We also have to handle the '-c' option specially, because it takes a configutation parameter in a separate word, which must be skipped, too.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
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 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |    3 ++-
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