Re: Some sub-commands can't be completed by TAB key.

From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 24, 2022, 01:42 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGP6POK22pCY+_bMCnwRx3h0kE9GpZoq1Pk2hJZoyE_O06WnDw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpmoi9qna.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 3:51 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> I see the following:
> >>
> >> $ git l<TAB>
> >> latexdiff   log
> >
> > This would mean you have a 'git-latexdiff' command somewhere in your PATH.
>
> True.  On Debian-based systems, the texlive-extra-utils package has
> /usr/bin/git-latexdiff and that is likely where it came from.

Mine comes from TexLive:

$ which git-latexdiff /opt/texlive/2021/bin/x86_64-linux/git-latexdiff

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> It is also worth noting that completion will also include whatever
> alias.  I get "lg" in the mix because I have
>
>         [alias]
>                 lg = "log --oneline"
>
> in my $HOME/.gitconfig, for example.

Good example. Got it.

HZ