Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] completion: checkout: complete paths when ref given

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2017, 14:26 UTC
Message-ID: <CAM0VKjkUu2k73+PxZ2UNKrnBg0nW_za+10O7eHEgcko6BaGx6Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170214212404.31469-2-cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:24 PM,  <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com> wrote:

> +               *)
> +                       __git_complete_tree_file "$ref" "$cur"
> +                       ;;

There is one more caveat here.

Both our __git_complete_index_file() and Bash's builtin filename completion lists matching paths like this:

  $ git rm contrib/co<TAB>
  coccinelle/                        contacts/
  completion/                        convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh

i.e. the leading path components are not redundantly repeated.

Now, with this patch in this code path the list would look like this:

  $ git checkout completion-refs-speedup contrib/co<TAB>
  contrib/coccinelle/
  contrib/completion/
  contrib/contacts/
  contrib/convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh

See the difference?

I once made a feeble attempt to make completion of the <ref>:<path> notation (i.e. what you extracted into __git_complete_tree_file()) look like regular filename completion, but couldn't.

Gábor