From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:56:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] completion: clarify ls-tree, archive, show completion
Message-ID: <7vbo7fovez.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130603192555.GK2192@goldbirke>

SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:

> Now, __git_complete_revlist_file() provides completion both for this
> master:Doc<TAB> notation and for revision ranges, i.e. for
> master..n<TAB> and master...n<TAB>.  However, since neither git
> ls-tree nor git archive accept revision ranges, calling
> __git_complete_revlist_file() in their completion function would be
> misleading.

ohh, I missed this part, and you are right.

> git show is special, as it understands both the master:Doc<TAB>
> notation and revision ranges, and even the combination of the two, so
> calling __git_complete_revlist_file() there would indeed be better.