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Re: Custom git completion

From
David Rhodes Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>
Date
Jan 30, 2010, 23:00 UTC
Message-ID
<9b69cfcf1001301500s48fcc476p1fd2c14e4310b892@mail.gmail.com>
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<20100129151127.GA21821@spearce.org>
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> David Rhodes Clymer <david@zettazebra.com> wrote:
>> Unless I read it incorrectly, the completion script included with
>> git-core does not make it easy for users to write completion scripts
>> for custom git commands. I can extend git itself by creating a command
>> "git-foo", and placing it in my path.
>
> git config --global alias.foo /home/me/bin/my-git-foo
>
> git foo will now complete correctly.  No need to modify the
> completion code.

This doesn't do what I want. This workaround only allows the command name itself to be completed. I want my _custom_ completion code to be used for my custom command.

-davidc
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Message 25 of 25 in “Custom git completion”
  1. David Rhodes ClymerJan 29, 2010
  2. Shawn O. PearceJan 29, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 29, 2010
  4. Shawn O. PearceJan 29, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 29, 2010
  6. bash: support user-supplied completion scripts for user's git commandsSZEDER Gábor, Jan 29, 2010
  7. Shawn O. PearceJan 29, 2010
  8. SZEDER GáborJan 29, 2010
  9. Shawn O. PearceJan 29, 2010
  10. SZEDER GáborJan 31, 2010
  11. 0/4 bash: support user-supplied completion scripts for custom git commands and aliasesSZEDER Gábor, Feb 23, 2010
  12. 1/4 bash: improve aliased command recognitionSZEDER Gábor, Feb 23, 2010
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2010
  14. SZEDER GáborFeb 24, 2010
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2010
  16. 2/4 bash: support user-supplied completion scripts for user's git commandsSZEDER Gábor, Feb 23, 2010
  17. 3/4 bash: support user-supplied completion scripts for aliasesSZEDER Gábor, Feb 23, 2010
  18. 4/4 bash: completion for gitk aliasesSZEDER Gábor, Feb 23, 2010
  19. Junio C HamanoJan 29, 2010
  20. SZEDER GáborFeb 26, 2010
  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 26, 2010
  22. Shawn O. PearceFeb 26, 2010
  23. David Rhodes ClymerJan 30, 2010
  24. David Rhodes ClymerJan 30, 2010
  25. David Rhodes ClymerJan 30, 2010

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