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Re: [PATCH 4/9] add missing long option to 'git grep' bash competion

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 8, 2009, 19:48 UTC
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Emmanuel Trillaud <etrillaud@gmail.com> writes:
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> according to the 'git-grep' man page, the following long options are missing
> from the 'git grep' bash completion :
> --null
> --color
> --no-color

I do not think completion's purpose should be to offer everything available under the sun, so "according to manpage these are missing" can never be a good justification for patches in this series.

Does it even make sense to complete --null in an interactive invocation?
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