Re: [PATCH 1/8] bash: Remove short option completions for branch/checkout/diff.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 4, 2007, 10:49 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr6t6rycz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <eq4ccg$9ae$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> [Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]
>
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> The short options (-l, -f, -d) for git-branch are rather silly to
>> include in the completion generation as these options must be fully
>> typed out by the user and most users already know what the options
>> are anyway, so including them in the suggested completions does
>> not offer huge value.  (The same goes for git-checkout and git-diff.)
>
> Not true. It is nice to have on "git branch -" TAB TAB list of all 
> (well, all included in completion) short options to git-branch.
>
> So I'd vote NAK.

Ah, sorry, but it's already done.

I tried "git branch <TAB>" and saw hundreds of possibilities offered, and thought mixing -d/-l and friends are useless. I didn't think of the possibility of saying "git branch -<TAB>".

Presumably it was trying to suggest the <start-point> argument but that does not make much sense actually either.