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[PATCH v3 0/3] completion of 'git [-C <dir>] diff'

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 5, 2026, 19:42 UTC
Message-ID
<20260805194250.3316220-1-gitster@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To
<xmqqcxw010me.fsf@gitster.g>
Here is another reroll.

The primary motivation for this topic is that the command-line completion of 'git diff' does not handle paths (unlike 'git status' and 'git add') and instead relies on the default behavior of Bash command-line completion, which completes files in $PWD; this does not work at all with the '-C <directory>' option.

Previous iterations of the patch taught the completion script to offer tracked paths that match the prefix before <TAB> to improve the situation.

This time, we also complete untracked paths ourselves, so that even the following commands, which compare files like 'file[12]' that are not under the control of Git in a different directory, are completed:

        $ git -C not-a-git-dir diff fil<TAB>
        $ git -C not-a-git-dir diff --no-index fil<TAB>
 1/3: completion: no-op refactoring of diff completion
 2/3: completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff'
 3/3: completion: 'git diff' completes untracked paths as a last resort
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 69 +++++++++++++++-----------
 t/t9902-completion.sh                  | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
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  1. completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff'Junio C Hamano, Aug 3, 2026
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2026
  3. SZEDER GáborAug 3, 2026
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2026
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2026
  6. completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff'Junio C Hamano, Aug 4, 2026
  7. 0/3 completion of 'git [-C <dir>] diff'Junio C Hamano, Aug 5, 2026
  8. 1/3 completion: no-op refactoring of diff completionJunio C Hamano, Aug 5, 2026
  9. 2/3 completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff'Junio C Hamano, Aug 5, 2026
  10. 3/3 completion: 'git diff' completes untracked paths as a last resortJunio C Hamano, Aug 5, 2026
  11. D. Ben KnobleAug 6, 2026
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2026
  13. D. Ben KnobleAug 6, 2026
  14. 0/3 completion of 'git [-C <dir>] diff'Junio C Hamano, Aug 7, 2026
  15. 1/3 completion: no-op refactoring of diff completionJunio C Hamano, Aug 7, 2026
  16. Elijah NewrenAug 7, 2026
  17. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2026
  18. 3/3 completion: 'git diff' completes untracked paths as a last resortJunio C Hamano, Aug 7, 2026
  19. 2/3 completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff'Junio C Hamano, Aug 7, 2026
  20. Elijah NewrenAug 7, 2026
  21. D. Ben KnobleAug 7, 2026
  22. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2026
  23. Elijah NewrenAug 7, 2026
  24. Elijah NewrenAug 7, 2026
  25. D. Ben KnobleAug 7, 2026
  26. 0/3 completion of 'git [-C <dir>] diff'Junio C Hamano, Aug 7, 2026
  27. 1/3 completion: no-op refactoring of diff completionJunio C Hamano, Aug 7, 2026
  28. 2/3 completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff'Junio C Hamano, Aug 7, 2026
  29. 3/3 completion: 'git diff' completes untracked paths as a last resortJunio C Hamano, Aug 7, 2026
  30. Elijah NewrenAug 7, 2026
  31. 0/3 completion of 'git [-C <dir>] diff'Junio C Hamano, Aug 12, 2026
  32. 1/3 completion: no-op refactoring of diff completionJunio C Hamano, Aug 12, 2026
  33. 2/3 completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff'Junio C Hamano, Aug 12, 2026
  34. 3/3 completion: 'git diff' completes untracked paths as a last resortJunio C Hamano, Aug 12, 2026

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