Re: Git completion not using ls-remote to auto-complete during push

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Jun 18, 2015, 11:29 UTC
Message-ID: <1434626973-4801-1-git-send-email-szeder@ira.uka.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAHd499Dk44Fq5c_wadxT_kuCs5BdkRwKZWOHyAgE4oi7pezxPw@mail.gmail.com>

Quoting Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>

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> I do the following:
> 
> $ git push origin :topic
> 
> If I stop halfway through typing 'topic' and hit TAB, auto-completion
> does not work if I do not have a local branch by that name (sometimes
> I delete my local branch first, then I push to delete it remotely). I
> thought that git completion code was supposed to use ls-remote to auto
> complete refs used in push operations. Is this supposed to work?

It's intentional. Running 'git ls-remote' with a far away remote can take ages, so instead we grab the refs on the remote from the locally stored refs under 'refs/remotes/<remote>/'.

See e832f5c096 (completion: avoid ls-remote in certain scenarios, 2013-05-28). The commit message mentions that you can "force" completion of remote refs via 'git ls-remote' by starting with the full refname, i.e. 'refs/<TAB>', however, that seems to work only on the left hand side of the colon in the push refspec.

Gábor