From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:08:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Calling all bash completion experts..
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611251106250.6991@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061125071351.GE4528@spearce.org>



On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> 
> I added the nospace option because of the completion for fetch/push,
> cat-file, diff-tree and ls-tree.
> 
> The problem is the file completion for e.g. cat-file.  We don't
> want a space added after we complete a directory name, so you can
> complete further, e.g.:
> 
>   git cat-file -p ma<tab>con<tab>comp<tab>git-com<tab>

But that's how directory completion _always_ works. Completion doesn't add 
spaces to directories anyway, it adds a "/".

The branch-name thing is well-taken: you don't want to add a space after a 
branch-name, although neither do you want to add a ":" by default.

So "nospace" after a branch (or tag) name sounds sane, but nowhere else 
that I can see.