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Re: [PATCH 4/3] completion: quote completions we find

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SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date
Sep 27, 2012, 22:58 UTC
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<20120927225809.GK10144@goldbirke>
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:31:10PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 05:57:00PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> >> +		COMPREPLY[$i]="${COMPREPLY[$i]}$stripped"
> >
> > This reminded me to a mini-series collecting dust in my git repo,
> > which converts a few similar var=$var$something constructs to use the
> > += append operator instead.
> 
> Is the benefit of rewriting it to var+=$something large enough to
> worry about the below?

That way we can get rid of a subshell in __gitcomp(), which means one less fork() during every command or option completion for Windows folks. We can also get rid of two subshells during loading the completion script.

And I would spare myself from a couple of merge conflicts, too ;)
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> > Now, Bash supports this += append operator since v3.1
> > (bash-3.1-alpha1, to be exact), which is around since July 2005, if I
> > can trust the mtime at ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/.  MSysgit ships
> > v3.1 so it already supports this, too.  So, what is the oldest Bash
> > version we care about for completion?
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: SZEDER Gábor
Message 18 of 37 in “completion: fix shell expansion of items”
  1. completion: fix shell expansion of itemsFelipe Contreras, Sep 20, 2012
  2. Jeff KingSep 20, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2012
  4. SZEDER GáborSep 20, 2012
  5. Jeff KingSep 20, 2012
  6. Felipe ContrerasSep 20, 2012
  7. Revert "completion: fix shell expansion of items"Jeff King, Sep 25, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 25, 2012
  9. SZEDER GáborSep 25, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 25, 2012
  11. Jeff KingSep 26, 2012
  12. 1/3 t9902: add a few basic completion testsJeff King, Sep 26, 2012
  13. 2/3 t9902: add completion tests for "odd" filenamesJeff King, Sep 26, 2012
  14. 3/3 completion: improve shell expansion of itemsJeff King, Sep 26, 2012
  15. 4/3 completion: quote completions we findJeff King, Sep 26, 2012
  16. SZEDER GáborSep 27, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2012
  18. SZEDER GáborSep 27, 2012
  19. SZEDER GáborSep 27, 2012
  20. Jeff KingSep 27, 2012
  21. Jeff KingSep 27, 2012
  22. Jeff KingSep 27, 2012
  23. SZEDER GáborSep 28, 2012
  24. 1/5 completion: fix non-critical bugs in __gitcomp() testsSZEDER Gábor, Sep 28, 2012
  25. 2/5 completion: fix args of run_completion() test helperSZEDER Gábor, Sep 28, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2012
  27. SZEDER GáborSep 28, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2012
  29. Jeff KingSep 28, 2012
  30. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2012
  31. Jeff KingSep 28, 2012
  32. SZEDER GáborSep 28, 2012
  33. 3/5 completion: add tests for the __gitcomp_nl() completion helper functionSZEDER Gábor, Sep 28, 2012
  34. 4/5 completion: test __gitcomp() and __gitcomp_nl() with expandable wordsSZEDER Gábor, Sep 28, 2012
  35. 5/5 completion: avoid compgen to fix expansion issues in __gitcomp_nl()SZEDER Gábor, Sep 28, 2012
  36. SZEDER GáborSep 28, 2012
  37. Jeff KingSep 28, 2012

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