Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 14, 2006, 19:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20061114192914.GD4299@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <87hcx1u934.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:

>  2) From git-<TAB>, (maybe the solution for this is to make
>     "git <TAB>" work and only do tab-completion for the commands
>     blessed enough to appear in "git --help"? Also push the tab
>     completion stuff out as a standard part of packages.

Uh, see contrib/completion/git-completion.bash.

"git <TAB>" completes commands. It offers too many completions for your taste it sounds like, as it also offers plumbing... but that's fixable. :-)

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