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Re: [PATCH] completion: remove ancient "ensure colon in COMP_WORDBREAKS" workaround

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 10, 2013, 20:48 UTC
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SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
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> Anyway.  Although the completion script in Fedora's gvfs package might
> be fixed, there are other completion scripts making the same mistake,
> so I'm afraid we should keep the workaround and drop this patch.
> Moreover, we should even consider extending our workaround by adding
> back '=' to COMP_WORDBREAKS, too.  Oh, well.
Thanks.

Perhaps the summary of your problem analysis deserves to be added as a in-code comment to make sure others won't later try to remove it only by checking how old Fedora 9 is?

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  1. completion: remove ancient "ensure colon in COMP_WORDBREAKS" workaroundSZEDER Gábor, Jun 9, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederJun 10, 2013
  3. SZEDER GáborJun 10, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2013
  5. Eric SunshineJun 10, 2013

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