From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:40:16 GMT
Subject: Re: ks/precompute-completion
Message-ID: <4AFCFF50.5080401@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091111220832.GA31620@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> As a distro user, I don't think I would be able to use it until there
> is a command to update the installed completion, to call after adding
> a new git command to my $PATH.  This could mean:
>
>  - git-completion.bash.generate learns to read the .in file and
>    write the completion script to arbitrary paths (or just always
>    uses stdin and stdout?)
>
>  - distros install git-completion.bash.{generate,in} to /usr/share/git-core
>
>  - distros install a simple completion script to /etc/bash_completion.d
>    that passes the buck, e.g.
>
> <snip scripts>
>
> Thoughts?

I'm confused. Shouldn't your distro take care of updating the completion 
for you? And wouldn't update-git-completion be more suited as part of a 
makefile if it was needed at all?