Re: Bash tab completion for _git_fetch alias is broken on Git 1.7.7.1

>
> 2011/11/12 Scott Bronson <bronson@rinspin.com>:
> > 2011/11/10 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
> >> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> >> > > Am 11/10/2011 4:21, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> >> > > > Nathan Broadbent <nathan.f77@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > > >> Dear git mailing list,
> >> > > >> I'm assigning the `_git_fetch` bash tab completion to the alias `gf`,
> >> > > >> with the following command:
> >> > > >>     complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_fetch gf
> >> > > >> The tab completion then works fine in git 1.7.0.4, but breaks on git
> >> > > >> 1.7.7.1, with the following error:
> >> I didn't actually tried, but I guess this is a side-effect of da4902a7
> >> (completion: remove unnecessary _get_comp_words_by_ref() invocations,
> >> ...
> >> Alternatively, you could easily create your own wrapper function
> >> around _git_fetch(), like this:
> > Very true.  But if you tweak the completion variables, you can fool
> > _git_fetch into working perfectly:
> > * If I had more time, I'd be tempted to write a function that
> > would define all the wrapper functions.
>
> I couldn't stop thinking about it last night, I had to try it.  Here's the
> result, seems to work great:
>
>
>    __define_git_completion () {
>    eval "
>        _git_$2_shortcut () {
>            COMP_LINE=\"git $2\${COMP_LINE#$1}\"
>            let COMP_POINT+=$((4+${#2}-${#1}))
>            COMP_WORDS=(git $2 \"\${COMP_WORDS[@]:1}\")
>            let COMP_CWORD+=1
>
>            local cur words cword prev
>            _get_comp_words_by_ref -n =: cur words cword prev
>            _git_$2
>        }
>    "
>    }
>
>    __git_shortcut () {
>        type _git_$2_shortcut &>/dev/null || __define_git_completion $1 $2
>        alias $1="git $2 $3"
>        complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_$2_shortcut $1
>    }
>
>    __git_shortcut  ga    add
>    __git_shortcut  gb    branch
>    __git_shortcut  gba   branch -a
>    __git_shortcut  gco   checkout
>    __git_shortcut  gci   commit -v
>    __git_shortcut  gcia  commit '-a -v'
>    __git_shortcut  gd    diff
>    __git_shortcut  gdc   diff --cached
>    __git_shortcut  gds   diff --stat
>    __git_shortcut  gf    fetch
>    __git_shortcut  gl    log
>    __git_shortcut  glp   log -p
>    __git_shortcut  gls   log --stat
>
>
> On Github:
> https://github.com/bronson/dotfiles/blob/731bfd951be68f395247982ba1fb745fbed2455c/.bashrc#L81
>
> It would be nice to see the __define_git_completion function merged
> upstram. Possible?
>
>    - Scott