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Re: [PATCH v2] completion: add new git_complete helper

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2012, 21:37 UTC
Message-ID
<20120415213718.GB5813@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<1334524814-13581-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Felipe Contreras wrote:
> This simplifies the completions, and makes it easier to define aliases:
>
>  git_complete gf git_fetch

Sounds neat. Unfortunately users could already be using a function with some other purpose named git_complete in their .profile and this would override it. The completion script has so far stuck to a limited namespace:

	_git_*	(completion functions)
	__git_*	(everything else, including public interfaces like __git_ps1)
A name like __git_complete should work, presumably.

Hope that helps, Jonathan

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