From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:16:43 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2013, #03; Thu, 6)
Message-ID: <20130607191643.GA31625@goldbirke>
In-Reply-To: <7v8v2lu5ks.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 11:41:07AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "git log -Gcomplete_file -p contrib/completion" found this one:
> 
> commit 1d66ec587e7d903afdf12a81718772a9eadc15a1
> Author: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
> Date:   Thu Mar 10 19:12:29 2011 +0100
> 
>     bash: complete 'git diff ...branc<TAB>'

(snip)

>     Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>     Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
>     Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> 
> Now I do not recall suggesting it, and you (and I today after 2
> years) may disagree with the rationale, but at least we can read
> what was the "intended" meaning, I think.

See

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/167728/focus=168838

I still agree with the rationale, considering that the new
__git_complete_revlist_file() function for completing ref1...ref2:path
is a nearly straight copy-paste from the then __git_complete_revlist()
and __git_complete_file() including that 12 line long sed script.


Gábor