From: Rolf Leggewie <foss@rolf.leggewie.biz>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 04:24:38 GMT
Subject: Re: broken bash completion
Message-ID: <4FA4AB86.8020108@rolf.leggewie.biz>
In-Reply-To: <20120504233213.GF2164@goldbirke>

Dear Gábor,

thank you for taking the time to write up an analysis and offer some 
workarounds to the bash-completion issue I reported.  That is much 
appreciated.

After all is said and done, though, the bash-completion remains 
inconsistent and thus broken.  It's great that your life is currently 
more convenient but in the end you are relying on broken behaviour.

Affected commands:
git log
git diff
git whatchanged
git branch (why offer tags OR files here at all)
[...]

Unaffected programs, i.e. working correctly:
git commit
[...]

Some consistency would be great.  In a perfect world bash-completion 
ought to work on all possible completion targets but at the same time it 
should exclude all that make no sense, too.  Neither of the two seems to 
be currently the case.

I had a look at /etc/bash_completion.d/git to see if there was some work 
I could do to cook up a patch, but unfortunately, it's all greek to me 
in there.

Regards

Rolf