From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 15:31:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] completion: backwards compatibility fix
Message-ID: <20120519153134.GB6979@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACY+Hvp-G4odbftiFeu1u+1icROD36M=CzSn3DKu_TEaqNB3OQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 09:54:28AM +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote:

> >> Felipe Contreras (2):
> >>   completion: rename _git and _gitk
> >>   completion: add support for backwards compatibilit
> >
> > Thanks. This looks like the obviously correct solution. Even if we end
> > up with a public _GIT_complete or whatever, the backwards-compatibility
> > is worth it.
> 
> Cool. Just though the patches now. Felipe, which variant should I use
> to define _main_git completion for the alias g with the 2 patches
> applied to git_completion.bash? Using bash-4.2.28.

I think the point of the patches is that you can continue to use your
same "complete ... -F _git g" line as always (with these patches you
could also say "__git_complete g _main_git", but that is not backwards
compatible to older versions, if you use the same bashrc on multiple
machines).

-Peff