Re: [PATCH] completion: move private shopt shim for zsh to __git_ namespace
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> (culling cc list of quiet people :))
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>> Most zsh users probably probably do not expect a custom shopt function
>> to enter their environment just because they ran "source
>> ~/.git-completion.sh".
>>
>> Such namespace pollution makes development of other scripts confusing
>> (because it makes the bash-specific shopt utility seem to be available
>> in zsh) and makes git's tab completion script brittle (since any other
>> shell snippet implementing some other subset of shopt will break it).
>> Rename the shopt shim to the more innocuous __git_shopt to be a good
>> citizen (with two underscores to avoid confusion with completion rules
>> for a hypothetical "git shopt" command).
>
> By the way, I meant the above[1] as a genuine patch submission.
> Thoughts? Bugs? Improvements?
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Felipe Contreras