From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:20:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/10] Allow completion of --committer and --author arguments to git log.
Message-ID: <7vy7pwfxp8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061127084228.GI19745@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> This is just a cute hack, but we can (easily) complete the parameter
> to --author or --committer in bash by asking for all possible authors
> or committers in this project from git log and offering them up as
> valid choices.

Easily but slowly ;-).  Try this in the kernel repository

	git log --author=Andre<TAB>

and watch the paint dry.  You might want to have an extra shell
to run top before you hit the TAB key.

It indeed is cute, but I think most people would wonder if the
terminal went dead, especially without any progress indicators.