From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:00:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-completion: workaround zsh COMPREPLY bug
Message-ID: <7v4nvi2kgq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1327455422-22340-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> zsh adds a backslash (foo\ ) for each item in the COMPREPLY array if IFS
> doesn't contain spaces. This issue has been reported[1], but there is no
> solution yet.
> ...
> Once zsh is fixed, we should conditionally disable this workaround to
> have the same benefits as bash users.
>
> [1] http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2012/msg00053.html
> [2] http://zsh.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=zsh/zsh;a=commitdiff;h=2e25dfb8fd38dbef0a306282ffab1d343ce3ad8d

That 2e25dfb8 only says:

    Rocky Bernstein: 29135 (plus tweaks): compgen -W in bash completion

without any explanation, which is not very useful.

Do you have a bug tracker ID or something for [1] above, with which I can
amend the patch as Matthieu suggests?