From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 21:01:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] Autocompletion fails with "bash: words: bad array subscript"
Message-ID: <20110510210116.GA25224@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=0r_hCgt3wh4EkRqS6gnCyyKrY2g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:47:49PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> 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