Re: [PATCH v2] completion: add new git_complete helper

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2012, 16:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s1sj27U_s3Y3nLL6pkMrPMVvTo982c85x-hH5szvprK0g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vty0inys6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

Show 17 quoted lines

> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2012/4/17 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>:
>>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 04:37:18PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>>>> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>
>>>> A name like __git_complete should work, presumably.
>>>
>>> And foo_wrap() should also fit into those namespaces.
>>
>> Yeah, I don't have a problem with that, just forgot about it.
>>
>> But git_complete I think is different.
>
> Is git_complete something the user types interactively, or is it meant to
> be used in their .bashrc to help them complete arguments to their custom
> scripts that take arguments similar to Git Porcelains?

It's meant for their .bashrc, but can be used interactively, exactly like 'complete'. You can type 'complete -o bashdefault -o default -o nospace -F _git git' in the command like, but that would rarely happen.

-- 
Felipe Contreras