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Re: Bug in git-completion.bash in __git_heads() function

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SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2017, 09:43 UTC
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Hi,
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>    This is the first time I am sending a bug report here, so if I have
> not met the criteria please let me know.
>    I found that at:
> https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash#L371,
> the usage of refname:strip=2 generates error:
> 
> fatal: unknown refname: format strip=2.
> 
> I am using git version 1.9.1. However using %(refname:short), I
> believe produces intended behaviour.

The for-each-ref format modifier ':strip=<N>' was introduced in v2.7.1~15^2 (tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo", 2016-01-25) and the completion script started using it in v2.13.0-rc0~46^2~8 (completion: don't disambiguate tags and branches, 2017-03-23).

It seems you're using an old Git with a recentish completion script. You could either upgrade Git, or use the completion script that was shipped with it.

Gábor
Previous: Amandeep Gautam
Message 2 of 2 in “Bug in git-completion.bash in __git_heads() function”
  1. Amandeep GautamDec 4, 2017
  2. SZEDER GáborDec 4, 2017

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