Re: [PATCH] bash: support 'git notes' and its subcommands

> Hi Johan,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:23:35AM +0100, Johan Herland wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 January 2010, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> > > ... and it will offer refs unless after -m or -F, because these two
> > > options require a non-ref argument.
> >
> > Maybe-NAK.
> >
> > The patch is probably good in itself, and the intent is certainly good,
> > but we're currently discussing deprecating the -m/-F options to "git
> > notes edit" (see
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/138215), and if
> > that's where we go, there's no point "encouraging" their use by adding
> > bash- completions for them...
> 
> -m and -F are not encouraged, because they are not offered (short
> options in general are never offered by the completion script).
> However, their presence or absence is taken into account to offer
> something sensible: refs after 'git notes edit <TAB>', files after
> 'git notes edit -F <TAB>'.  Note, that I chose 'edit' here, because
> currently it's the only subcommand taking '-F', but it will actually
> work the same way with the upcoming 'add' and 'append' subcommands.