Re: [PATCH 00/14] completion: a bunch of updates

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 27, 2020, 22:19 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s13nip2_Z1OOFb9iVcrSxQbyJW4cH86J3Ah1p4SmTQWQQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk0vbbep5.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 2:23 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

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> > You are asking in the wrong forum.
> >
> > I would gladly point you to *dozens* of issues reported in Stack
> > Overflow and Oh-My-Zsh if you don't believe me.
>
> Oh, no, there is no "believing" needed.
>
> Have you fed your patches to those folks who have dozens of issues
> and the patches made their life better?

Yes.

> It does not help much to
> make me look at these forums; we need some way to make those in
> these forums aware of your improvements, try them out and report
> success,

They already are, and they already have. In those forums.

> (they will get
> their zsh/git completion from their distros---I am assuming that the
> distros get theirs from us in contrib/completion/).

I don't know of anyone that relies on the zsh completion shared by their distribution.

> > Or you could just install zsh and see the issues for yourself.
>
> No, thanks.  I am not a zsh user, and have no plan to become one ;-)

You don't need to become a zsh user to test a patch. I often test bash completion patches on bash, even though I'm not a bash user.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras