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Re: Bash completion suggests tags for git branch -D

From
SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2021, 20:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20210203200047.GB1036595@szeder.dev>
In-Reply-To
<xmqqpn1igznk.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 09:14:39AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Date: Tue Feb 2 04:02:13 2021 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] completion: treat "branch -D" the same way as "branch -d"
> 
> Paul Jolly noticed that the former offers not just branches but tags
> as completion candidates.  Mimic how "branch -d" limits its suggestion
> to branch names.
Uh-oh.  This is a bug from my second ever commit in Git! ;)
'-M' should be handled the same.
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> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
>  contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> index 4b1f4264a6..b54113e2f9 100644
> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> @@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ _git_branch ()
>  	while [ $c -lt $cword ]; do
>  		i="${words[c]}"
>  		case "$i" in
> -		-d|--delete|-m|--move)	only_local_ref="y" ;;
> +		-d|--delete|-D|-m|--move)	only_local_ref="y" ;;
>  		-r|--remotes)		has_r="y" ;;
>  		esac
>  		((c++))
> -- 
> 2.30.0-586-g047f30a795
> 
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Message 9 of 10 in “Bash completion suggests tags for git branch -D”
  1. Paul JollyFeb 2, 2021
  2. Jeff KingFeb 2, 2021
  3. Jeff KingFeb 2, 2021
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2021
  5. Eric SunshineFeb 2, 2021
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2021
  7. Jeff KingFeb 2, 2021
  8. Paul JollyFeb 2, 2021
  9. SZEDER GáborFeb 3, 2021
  10. completion: handle other variants of "branch -m"Jeff King, Feb 3, 2021

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