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[PATCH] git-completion.zsh: define __gitcomp_file compatibility function

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Mar 5, 2013, 08:43 UTC
Message-ID
<1362473035-5034-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
In-Reply-To
<vpqtxowp9e2.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

Commit fea16b47b60 (Fri Jan 11 19:48:43 2013, Manlio Perillo, git-completion.bash: add support for path completion), introduced a new __gitcomp_file function that uses the bash builtin "compgen". The function was redefined for ZSH in the deprecated section of git-completion.bash, but not in the new git-completion.zsh script.

As a result, users of git-completion.zsh trying to complete "git add fo<tab>" get an error:

git add fo__gitcomp_file:8: command not found: compgen
This patch adds the redefinition and removes the error.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
---
> Felipe, you know ZSH completion much better than me. Could you turn this
> into a real patch?

No response from Felipe, so I'm trying my own patch. Compared to the snippet I already sent, I added the -f option to "compadd", which was there in the __gitcomp_file function defined in the deprecated ZSH compatibility section of the bash script, and gives the ZSH equivalent for "compopt -o filenames".

This fixes an annoying regression for ZSH users, so it may deserve to be in the future 1.8.2.

 contrib/completion/git-completion.zsh | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.zsh b/contrib/completion/git-completion.zsh
index 4577502..cf8116d 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.zsh
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.zsh
@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ __gitcomp_nl ()
 	compadd -Q -S "${4- }" -p "${2-}" -- ${=1} && _ret=0
 }
 
+__gitcomp_file ()
+{
+	emulate -L zsh
+
+	local IFS=$'\n'
+	compset -P '*[=:]'
+	compadd -Q -p "${2-}" -f -- ${=1} && _ret=0
+}
+
 _git ()
 {
 	local _ret=1
-- 
1.8.1.3.572.g35e1b60
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Message 4 of 6 in “zsh completion broken for file completion”
  1. Matthieu MoyFeb 28, 2013
  2. Manlio PerilloFeb 28, 2013
  3. Felipe ContrerasApr 1, 2013
  4. git-completion.zsh: define __gitcomp_file compatibility functionMatthieu Moy, Mar 5, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2013
  6. Manlio PerilloApr 2, 2013

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