Re: [PATCH] git-completion: workaround zsh COMPREPLY bug
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> zsh adds a backslash (foo\ ) for each item in the COMPREPLY array if IFS
>> doesn't contain spaces. This issue has been reported[1], but there is no
>> solution yet.
>> ...
>> Once zsh is fixed, we should conditionally disable this workaround to
>> have the same benefits as bash users.
>>
>> [1] http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2012/msg00053.html
>> [2] http://zsh.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=zsh/zsh;a=commitdiff;h=2e25dfb8fd38dbef0a306282ffab1d343ce3ad8d
>
> That 2e25dfb8 only says:
>
> Rocky Bernstein: 29135 (plus tweaks): compgen -W in bash completion
>
> without any explanation, which is not very useful.
Yeah, they development practices leaves a lot to be desired.
> Do you have a bug tracker ID or something for [1] above, with which I can
> amend the patch as Matthieu suggests?
I don't think there's something like that, but here's the original discussion:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel/22541
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Felipe Contreras
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>