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Re: Custom git completion

From
David Rhodes Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>
Date
Jan 30, 2010, 23:03 UTC
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<9b69cfcf1001301503n455191cdse93a7d4e86c0e6a0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> How does the completion code learn what options and arguments such aliases
>> and subcommands (e.g. "git foo") take without being told?
>
> Sure.  But the patch offered by the original poster also suffered
> from this problem, it didn't know how to complete arguments for
> the subcommand.
>

My patch allows custom completion code to be called if available. I don't expect git completion to know anything about my new command.

-davidc
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Message 24 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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