Re: [PATCH] bash completion: Fix the . -> .. revision range completion

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Does it fix this one too:
> > > > 
> > > > 	git show origin/pu:Makef<tab>
> > > > 
> > > > which totally screws up and becomes
> > > > 
> > > > 	git show Makefile
> > > > 
> > > > dropping the version specifier?
> 
> What is $COMP_WORDBREAKS set to in your shell?  In mine it
> appears to be:
> 
> 	" \"'@><=;|&(:"
> 
> which is the I believe the shell default.
> 
> Björn Steinbrink (doener on #git) is running bash 3.2.39 from
> Debian and has the same setting, and the completion works correctly
> there too.  He reports that removing : from COMP_WORDBREAKS will
> get the behavior you are reporting as broken.
> 
> I have to say, this sounds to me like you (or some package on your
> system) modified COMP_WORDBREAKS away from the default that other
> distributions use and that is what is breaking us here.  Since we
> can have only one setting for this variable in the shell I do not
> thing it would be a good idea for our completion package to force
> a specific setting upon the user.