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Re: [PATCH 02/12] completion: simplify __gitcomp

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 8, 2012, 13:07 UTC
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2012/4/8 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>:
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> On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 06:07:49AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> The suffix is never used.
>
> The suffix was used to offer completion after 'git config
> branch.<TAB>' ending with a period.  It is not used by git's
> completion script anymore, because nowadays this case is handled by
> the __gitcomp_nl helper() function.
>
> However, users can provide custom completion functions to their
> aliases or additional git commands, and there might be a custom
> completion function out there that passes a suffix to __gitcomp().

Yes, there _might_ be, and they would have to be fixed; APIs change. However, this is highly theoretical, what suffix could anybody possibly want? I believe __gitcomp_1 already does the job of adding sensible suffixes, and there's nothing else anybody else could possibly want.

In any case, shouldn't compgen -S "${4-}" do the trick?
> We don't want to break those custom completion functions, so I think
> the suffix should stay.

So we should never make any cleanups because some custom completion functions might theoretically break? I think at some point we need to accept that nobody is using this argument anyway (and they should).

Cheers.
-- 
Felipe Contreras
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Message 19 of 48 in “Bash completion rework”
  1. 00/12 Bash completion reworkFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  2. 01/12 tests: add initial bash completion testsFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2012
  4. Jeff KingApr 8, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2012
  6. Jeff KingApr 8, 2012
  7. Jeff KingApr 8, 2012
  8. Andreas SchwabApr 8, 2012
  9. Jeff KingApr 8, 2012
  10. Felipe ContrerasApr 11, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2012
  12. Jeff KingApr 8, 2012
  13. Jonathan NiederApr 8, 2012
  14. Jeff KingApr 8, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2012
  16. John KeepingApr 8, 2012
  17. 02/12 completion: simplify __gitcompFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  18. SZEDER GáborApr 8, 2012
  19. Felipe ContrerasApr 8, 2012
  20. Jonathan NiederApr 8, 2012
  21. Felipe ContrerasApr 8, 2012
  22. Jonathan NiederApr 8, 2012
  23. Felipe ContrerasApr 8, 2012
  24. Johannes SixtApr 9, 2012
  25. Felipe ContrerasApr 9, 2012
  26. Felipe ContrerasApr 8, 2012
  27. Jonathan NiederApr 8, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2012
  29. 03/12 completion: simplify __gitcomp_1Felipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  30. 04/12 completion: trivial simplificationFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  31. 05/12 completion: add missing global optionsFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  32. John KeepingApr 8, 2012
  33. SZEDER GáborApr 8, 2012
  34. 06/12 tests: add more bash completion testsFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  35. 07/12 completion: simplify command stuffFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  36. SZEDER GáborApr 11, 2012
  37. Felipe ContrerasApr 11, 2012
  38. SZEDER GáborApr 11, 2012
  39. Felipe ContrerasApr 11, 2012
  40. Felipe ContrerasApr 12, 2012
  41. 08/12 completion: simplify _git_bundleFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  42. 09/12 completion: calculate argument position properlyFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  43. 10/12 completion: add new git_complete helperFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  44. SZEDER GáborApr 11, 2012
  45. Felipe ContrerasApr 11, 2012
  46. 11/12 test: add tests for aliases in bash completionFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012
  47. Felipe ContrerasApr 8, 2012
  48. 12/12 completion: rename _git and _gitkFelipe Contreras, Apr 8, 2012

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