From: Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:28:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/10] Allow completion of --committer and --author arguments to git log.
Message-ID: <20061127102831.GA5428@fry.bender.fht>
In-Reply-To: <20061127084228.GI19745@spearce.org>

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:42:28AM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> This is just a cute hack, but we can (easily) complete the parameter
> to --author or --committer in bash by asking for all possible authors
> or committers in this project from git log and offering them up as
> valid choices.
> 
> We replace spaces with dots as this prevents names with spaces from
> appearing as two parameters rather than one, yet it still matches the
> space in the field.
is it hard to train bash-completion to use "" and spaces instead of 
replacing spaces by dots? Besides, great feature, thank you for that... 
that's very handy.

Sincerly