Re: [PATCH 2/2] completion: add docs on how to add subcommand completions
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 11:05:48PM +0200, Roland Hieber wrote:
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> It took me more than a few tries and a good lecture of __git_main to
> understand that the two paragraphs above really only refer to adding
> completion functions for executables that are not called through git's
> subcommand magic. Add a few sentences for that case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> index ffcc55484bcd..f0c8353c1cdb 100644
> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> @@ -40,6 +40,13 @@
> #
> # __git_complete gk gitk
> #
> +# To add completion for git subcommands that live in external scripts,
> +# define a function of the form '_git_${subcommand}' while replacing all dashes
> +# with underscores, and the main git completion will make use of it.
> +# For example, to add completeion after 'git do-my-stuff' (which could e.g. liveAh, of course its s/completeion/completion/ …
- Roland
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> +# in /usr/bin/git-do-stuff), name the completion function '_git_do_stuff'.
> +# See _git_show, _git_bisect etc. below for more examples.
> +#
> # Compatible with bash 3.2.57.
> #
> # You can set the following environment variables to influence the behavior of
> --
> 2.39.2
>
>
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