[PATCH 1/3] doc: note config file restrictions for completion.commands
- From
Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
- Date
- Mar 1, 2019, 17:34 UTC
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- <20190301173443.16429-2-tmz@pobox.com>
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- <20190228230506.GA20625@sigill.intra.peff.net>
The completion.commands config var must be set in either the system-wide or global config file. The completion script does not read a local repository config.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> --- Documentation/config/completion.txt | 3 ++- Documentation/git.txt | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/completion.txt b/Documentation/config/completion.txt index 4d99bf33c9..4859d18e86 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/completion.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/completion.txt @@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ completion.commands:: porcelain commands and a few select others are completed. You can add more commands, separated by space, in this variable. Prefixing the command with '-' will remove it from - the existing list. + the existing list. The variable must be set in either the + system-wide or global config. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 00156d64aa..638f4d6cc9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which `git config others (all other commands in `$PATH` that have git- prefix), list-<category> (see categories in command-list.txt), nohelpers (exclude helper commands), alias and config - (retrieve command list from config variable completion.commands) + (retrieve command list from config variable completion.commands, + set in the global or system-wide config file) GIT COMMANDS ------------