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Re: [BUG] Autocompletion fails with "bash: words: bad array subscript"

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 10, 2011, 21:01 UTC
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<20110510210116.GA25224@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:47:49PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
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> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 22:39, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > Hrm. That code doesn't appear in our completion at all. We provide our
> > own _get_comp_words_by_ref, but if it is already defined, we use
> > whatever is there. So on my box, the problematic code comes from
> > /etc/bash_completion. And I think it is a bug there, as this is one of
> > the first things called (so git's completion hasn't had a change to
> > introduce any bugs yet :) ).
> 
> Most curious, since it doesn't happen when I don't source git
> completion. Perhaps it'll happen for any completion, or maybe we're
> using the completion wrong somehow? I'm on Debian wheezy/sid.

Right. Bash calls into our __git() completion function, which calls the implementation of _get_comp_words_by_ref from /etc/bash_completion, which has the bug. If you don't source git completion, then you are just getting bash's default file completion.

-Peff
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  1. Sverre RabbelierMay 10, 2011
  2. Jeff KingMay 10, 2011
  3. Jeff KingMay 10, 2011
  4. Sverre RabbelierMay 10, 2011
  5. Jeff KingMay 10, 2011
  6. Sverre RabbelierMay 10, 2011
  7. Jeff KingMay 10, 2011
  8. SZEDER GáborMay 10, 2011
  9. Jonathan NiederMay 10, 2011
  10. SZEDER GáborMay 11, 2011
  11. completion: fix array indexing error after reverse history searchSZEDER Gábor, May 10, 2011
  12. Sverre RabbelierMay 10, 2011

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