From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:16:32 GMT
Subject: Re: git-completion.bash should not add a space after a ref
Message-ID: <7vk3rghdwv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <50F1AD0F.7080503@gmail.com>

Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com> writes:

> This is not really a bug, but a small usability problem.
>
> When completing a reference, Bash will add a space after the reference name.
>
> As an example in:
>
>     $git show master<TAB>
>
> The problem is that an user may want to show a tree or blog object from
> master:
>
>     $git show master:git.c

Or the user may want to see only changes to the documentation, e.g.

	$ git show master Documentation/

so removing a SP is a regression in the other way around.

Given that "refer to an object in a tree" is a much less often used
operation, I have a feeling that the current behaviour happens to
make a good trade-off between these two conflicting purposes that
cannot be satisfied both at the same time.