Re: No log --no-decorate completion?

From: Max Rothman <max.r.rothman@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 24, 2017, 15:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFA_24JGE=MyRFYwZ_zKsFCt_xFVNqrmagMBQBam3nHhdO6Gzw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFA_24Jov7FDw7AxUtFDV6avOj40LD6ptEVMPpVuSdAo_6L_1A@mail.gmail.com>

Just re-discovered this in my inbox. So is this worth fixing? I could (probably) figure out a patch.

Thanks, Max

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Max Rothman <max.r.rothman@gmail.com> wrote:

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> To be fair, other --no* options complete, it's just --no-decorate,
> --no-walk, --no-abbrev-commit, --no-expand-tabs, --no-patch,
> --no-indent-heuristic, and --no-textconv that's missing.
>
> For example:
> $ git log --no<TAB><TAB>
> --no-color         --no-max-parents   --no-min-parents   --no-prefix
>      --not
> --no-ext-diff      --no-merges        --no-notes         --no-renames
>      --notes
>
> Thanks,
> Max
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Max Rothman <max.r.rothman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I recently noticed that in the git-completion script, there's
>>> completion for --decorate={full,yes,no} for git log and family, but
>>> not for --no-decorate. Is that intentional? If not, I *think* I see
>>> how it could be added.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Max
>>
>> Using git-blame, I found af4e9e8c87 (completion: update am, commit, and log,
>> 2009-10-07) as well as af16bdaa3f (completion: fix and update 'git log
>> --decorate='
>> options, 2015-05-01), both of their commit messages do not discuss leaving out
>> --no-decorate intentionally.
>>
>> If you give --no-<TAB> you'd get more than just the completion to --no-decorate,
>> but all the negated options, I would assume?
>>
>> So maybe that is why no one added the negated options, yet?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan