From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:18:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bash completion: Add completion for 'git mergetool' Message-ID: <20080815001816.GG3782@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <7v63q3cev5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > > Lee Marlow wrote: > >> The --tool= long option can be completed with > >> kdiff3 tkdiff meld xxdiff emerge > >> vimdiff gvimdiff ecmerge opendiff > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Lee Marlow > > > > Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce > > > > ... for both patches in this series. But this is new functionality > > so it probably won't be in 1.6.0; its too late in that release cycle. > > Heh, you are too cautious ;-) Heh, last time you accused me of being too aggressive. > Both "log --merge" and mergetool have been with us for quite some time, > and I certainly do not mind taking [2/2] if not both. I think both are fine to include in 1.6.0 if you are willing to apply them there. Its pretty low risk, but at this point the bash completion has gone from "minor fun toy" to "major part of the git-core suite which all of the distros link into their bash completion loading". IMHO its long out-grown its contrib status. -- Shawn.