From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 01:00:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] completion: use specified file (if any) when completing config vars
Message-ID: <4A04D5A9.1090901@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <780e0a6b0905071255g4ade6316oace6a2be6a6d2@mail.gmail.com>

Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>> Wow, this is a lot of magic.
>>
>> Try:
>>
>> Â git config --global remote.gitster.url $(git config remote.o<TAB>
>>
>> You'll complete against --global, not the local repository
>
> Yeah, I didn't think it would be very robust. Is it a good idea to
> keep going down this path, or is it too magical? This example could be
> fixed by searching the words backwards, but I imagine there is some
> other case where that will fail. Also, --global and --system don't
> have values, so right now it's all wrong (i.e. config_file is
> "--global remote.gitster.url" for this example).

After further investigation, I can't get the tab completion you talk
about here to work at all. Should it work?

I've reworked this into two patches which I'll send as a follow up soon.