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Re: [PATCH v5] git-completion.bash: add support for path completion

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 21, 2013, 10:14 UTC
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com> wrote:

> The git-completion.bash script did not implemented full, git aware,
> support to complete paths, for git commands that operate on files within
> the current working directory or the index.
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> +__git_index_file_list_filter_compat ()
> +{
> +       local path
> +
> +       while read -r path; do
> +               case "$path" in
> +               ?*/*) echo "${path%%/*}/" ;;
> +               *) echo "$path" ;;
> +               esac
> +       done
> +}
> +
> +__git_index_file_list_filter_bash ()
> +{
> +       local path
> +
> +       while read -r path; do
> +               case "$path" in
> +               ?*/*)
> +                       # XXX if we append a slash to directory names when using
> +                       # `compopt -o filenames`, Bash will append another slash.
> +                       # This is pretty stupid, and this the reason why we have to
> +                       # define a compatible version for this function.
> +                       echo "${path%%/*}" ;;

Which version of bash is that? It works perfectly fine here with or without the /.

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> +# __git_index_files accepts 1 or 2 arguments:
> +# 1: Options to pass to ls-files (required).
> +#    Supported options are --cached, --modified, --deleted, --others,
> +#    and --directory.
> +# 2: A directory path (optional).
> +#    If provided, only files within the specified directory are listed.
> +#    Sub directories are never recursed.  Path must have a trailing
> +#    slash.
> +__git_index_files ()
> +{
> +       local dir="$(__gitdir)" root="${2-.}"
> +
> +       if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
> +               __git_ls_files_helper "$root" "$1" | __git_index_file_list_filter |
> +                       sort | uniq
> +       fi
> +}
> +
> +# __git_diff_index_files accepts 1 or 2 arguments:
> +# 1) The id of a tree object.
> +# 2) A directory path (optional).
> +#    If provided, only files within the specified directory are listed.
> +#    Sub directories are never recursed.  Path must have a trailing
> +#    slash.
> +__git_diff_index_files ()
> +{
> +       local dir="$(__gitdir)" root="${2-.}"
> +
> +       if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
> +               __git_diff_index_helper "$root" "$1" | __git_index_file_list_filter |
> +                       sort | uniq
> +       fi
> +}

These two are exactly the same, except one calls __git_ls_files_helper, and the other one __git_diff_index_helper, can't we make another argument that is and select one or the other based on that?

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>  __git_heads ()
>  {
>         local dir="$(__gitdir)"
> @@ -430,6 +543,46 @@ __git_complete_revlist_file ()
>  }
>
>
> +# __git_complete_index_file requires 1 argument: the options to pass to
> +# ls-file
> +__git_complete_index_file ()
> +{
> +       local pfx cur_="$cur"
> +
> +       case "$cur_" in
> +       ?*/*)
> +               pfx="${cur_%/*}"
> +               cur_="${cur_##*/}"
> +               pfx="${pfx}/"
> +
> +               __gitcomp_file "$(__git_index_files "$1" "$pfx")" "$pfx" "$cur_"
> +               ;;
> +       *)
> +               __gitcomp_file "$(__git_index_files "$1")" "" "$cur_"
> +               ;;
> +       esac
> +}
> +
> +# __git_complete_diff_index_file requires 1 argument: the id of a tree
> +# object
> +__git_complete_diff_index_file ()
> +{
> +       local pfx cur_="$cur"
> +
> +       case "$cur_" in
> +       ?*/*)
> +               pfx="${cur_%/*}"
> +               cur_="${cur_##*/}"
> +               pfx="${pfx}/"
> +
> +               __gitcomp_file "$(__git_diff_index_files "$1" "$pfx")" "$pfx" "$cur_"
> +               ;;
> +       *)
> +               __gitcomp_file "$(__git_diff_index_files "$1")" "" "$cur_"
> +               ;;
> +       esac
> +}

These are also exactly the same, we could pass the argument to the function above.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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  1. git-completion.bash: add support for path completionManlio Perillo, Jan 11, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2013
  3. Manlio PerilloJan 12, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2013
  5. Manlio PerilloJan 12, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2013
  7. Felipe ContrerasApr 21, 2013
  8. Manlio PerilloApr 23, 2013
  9. Felipe ContrerasApr 27, 2013

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