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Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-completion.bash: remove bashism to fix ZSH compatibility

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Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 11, 2013, 17:12 UTC
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Il 11/03/2013 18:01, Junio C Hamano ha scritto:
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> [...]
> Having to restrict to the common subset means that whenever bash
> adds new and useful features that this script could take advantage
> of to improve the user experience, they cannot be employed until zsh
> catches up (and worse yet, it is outside the control of this script
> if zsh may ever catch up in the specific feature).
>

Maybe, to avoid this problem and code duplication (the main reason bash script is sourced, as far as I can tell), it may be useful to add additional reusable git commands, for use in shell completion?

E.g:
	git suggest <cmd> *args
returns a line separed list of filenames affected by cmd.
Regards  Manlio
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Message 6 of 12 in “git-completion.bash: remove bashism to fix ZSH compatibility”
  1. git-completion.bash: remove bashism to fix ZSH compatibilityMatthieu Moy, Mar 11, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 11, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 11, 2013
  4. Matthieu MoyMar 11, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 11, 2013
  6. Manlio PerilloMar 11, 2013
  7. Manlio PerilloMar 11, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 11, 2013
  9. Matthieu MoyMar 11, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 11, 2013
  11. Paul SmithMar 11, 2013
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