From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:29:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Git completion not using ls-remote to auto-complete during push
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>
> 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