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Re: [PATCH] Update bash completions to prevent unbound variable errors.

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Ted Pavlic <ted@tedpavlic.com>
Date
Jan 12, 2009, 21:37 UTC
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> Because (from a quick look) their completion script never expands a
> variable which is not known to be set.

They use $1, $2, etc. In fact, they use $1, $2, and $3 in their _hg, which is their main completion function. Why would those be defined there?

In fact, it's $1, $2, $3, and $4 that are causing the problemw ith the git completions.

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