Re: bash completion only provides revs, not paths

> Uwe Kleine-Knig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> wrote:
> > currently autocompletion in 
> > 
> > 	ukleinek@zentaur:~/gsrc/linux-2.6 git log ar<tab>
> > 
> > only yields "armltd/" (i.e. the prefix of some remote tracking branches)
> > but most of the time I want it to complete to "arch/".
> 
> Right.  It favors refs over paths.  Why?  Because I complete refs
> more than I complete paths.
>  
> > I don't understand that autocompletion stuff, but probably to fix that
> > several __git_complete_revlist should be replaced by a
> > __git_complete_revlist_or_path.  The harder part is to implement the
> > latter function.  An optimal implementation would only give back paths
> > if there is a "--" somewhere before the cursor.
> 
> Its ugly, but if we only do path name completion after a -- then
> we can just return "" as the options to bash, and it will go off
> and do the path name completion itself.  If we do path names and
> and refs at the same time, that's a disaster waiting to happen.
> We would have to do the path name completion ourselves.

> --8<--
> bash completion: Completely only path names after -- in options
> 
> If the user has inserted a -- before the current argument we are
> being asked to complete they are most likely trying to force Git into
> treating this argument as a path name, and not as a ref.  We should
> allow bash to complete it as a path from the local working directory.
> 
> Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-Knig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>