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Re: [QUERY] Why do we have git-completion.zsh?

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 20, 2013, 18:53 UTC
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<20130420185329.GB8586@elie.Belkin>
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
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>>                             However, I don't understand why we
>> maintain it, because there's a comprehensive first-class completer in
>> ZSH core [1] which I use all the time.  Shouldn't the completion folks
>> be contributing to this instead?
>
> Only if they want to.
[...]
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/210022/focus=210024
Sorry, wrong link.  Here's a better one:
http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2011/msg00497.html

More fundamentally, your question seems to assume some kind of shared plan regarding what people work on, rather than each person choosing to work on what they consider valuable without having to justify it to others. I am very happy with Felipe's work on git's completion code and don't think it does any harm to efforts elsewhere.

Thanks for your interest, Jonathan

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  1. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 20, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederApr 20, 2013
  3. Jonathan NiederApr 20, 2013
  4. Felipe ContrerasApr 20, 2013
  5. Felipe ContrerasApr 21, 2013
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 21, 2013
  7. Felipe ContrerasApr 21, 2013
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 21, 2013

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