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Re: [PATCH 9/10] Allow completion of --committer and --author arguments to git log.

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Nov 27, 2006, 16:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20061127164655.GA6616@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<20061127102831.GA5428@fry.bender.fht>
Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de> wrote:
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> 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.
I tried.  Bash did not listen.  :-)

I tried "", '', \<sp>. None of them carried into the completion. Obviously I was doing something wrong, but right now I don't know what that was. I spent 22 minutes on it and just caved in with dots when it worked and nothing else did.

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Message 12 of 19 in “Hide plumbing/transport commands from bash completion.”
  1. 2/10 Hide plumbing/transport commands from bash completion.Shawn O. Pearce, Nov 27, 2006
  2. 3/10 Teach bash how to complete options for git-name-rev.Shawn O. Pearce, Nov 27, 2006
  3. 4/10 Add current branch in PS1 support to git-completion.bash.Shawn O. Pearce, Nov 27, 2006
  4. SeanNov 27, 2006
  5. 5/10 Teach bash how to complete git-format-patch.Shawn O. Pearce, Nov 27, 2006
  6. Jakub NarebskiNov 27, 2006
  7. 6/10 Teach bash how to complete git-cherry-pick.Shawn O. Pearce, Nov 27, 2006
  8. 7/10 Teach bash how to complete git-rebase.Shawn O. Pearce, Nov 27, 2006
  9. 8/10 Teach bash about git log/show/whatchanged options.Shawn O. Pearce, Nov 27, 2006
  10. 9/10 Allow completion of --committer and --author arguments to git log.Shawn O. Pearce, Nov 27, 2006
  11. Nicolas VilzNov 27, 2006
  12. Shawn PearceNov 27, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoNov 27, 2006
  14. Shawn PearceNov 27, 2006
  15. 10/10 Support bash completion of refs/remote.Shawn O. Pearce, Nov 27, 2006
  16. Shawn PearceNov 27, 2006
  17. SeanNov 27, 2006
  18. Shawn PearceNov 27, 2006
  19. SeanNov 27, 2006

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