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[PATCH] Fix bash completion to not garble the screen with an error message.

From
Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date
Mar 6, 2007, 20:18 UTC
Message-ID
<20070306201726.15059.68223.stgit@gandelf.nowhere.earth>

Maybe we could refuse to complete further when the command was not recognized, but at least this fix avoids the annoying behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
---
 contrib/stgit-completion.bash |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/stgit-completion.bash b/contrib/stgit-completion.bash
index 8a027bf..18645dc 100644
--- a/contrib/stgit-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/stgit-completion.bash
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ _all_other_patches ()
 # List the command options
 _cmd_options ()
 {
-    stg $1 --help | grep -e " --[A-Za-z]" | sed -e "s/.*\(--[^ =]\+\).*/\1/"
+    stg $1 --help 2>/dev/null | grep -e " --[A-Za-z]" | sed -e "s/.*\(--[^ =]\+\).*/\1/"
 }
 
 # Generate completions for patches and patch ranges from the given
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