From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 15:34:09 GMT
Subject: Re: bash completion lacks options
Message-ID: <CACBZZX4aZo_hn07Pho2GtBVNWm7WHLbV6xSi_r-BjW97QWNqEg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150907150757.GA6720@aepfle.de>

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
> "git send-email --f<tab>" lacks --find-renames and others. Is the list
> of possible options maintained manually?

Yes, see contrib/completion/git-completion.bash.

There's no code for send-email there, you (or someone) could submit a patch! :)

> Perhaps this should be
> automated by placing the long strings in an ELF section, then filling
> variables like $__git_format_patch_options from such ELF section.
> An example how this was done in libguestfs is here (see daemon/daemon.h):
> https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/0306c98d319d189281af3c15101c8d343e400f13

This is an interesting approach, but wouldn't help with git-send-email
in particular, it's a Perl script, so there's no ELF section to parse.