Re: UI and git-completion.sh

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 24, 2007, 10:20 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710241113190.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071023234617.45a4fc64@paolo-desktop>

Hi,

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

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> Using the git-completation script it all boils down to 48 commands.
> 
> paolo@paolo-desktop:~/git$ git 
> add                   fetch                 rebase 
> am                    filter-branch         rebase--interactive 
> annotate              format-patch          relink 
> apply                 fsck                  remote 
> archive               gc                    repack 
> bisect                get-tar-commit-id     request-pull 
> blame                 grep                  reset 
> branch                gui                   resolve 
> bundle                imap-send             revert 
> checkout              init                  rm 
> checkout-index        instaweb              send-email 
> cherry                log                   shortlog 
> cherry-pick           lost-found            show 
> citool                ls-files              show-branch 
> clean                 ls-remote             show-ref 
> clone                 ls-tree               stash 
> commit                merge                 status 
> config                mergetool             submodule 
> convert-objects       mv                    tag 
> count-objects         name-rev              var 
> describe              pickaxe               verify-pack 
> diff                  pull                  whatchanged 
> diff-stages           push

diff-stages just struck my eye. It is no longer in git... But AFAICS it is no longer in git-completion.bash either.

Besides, I think that the number of commands could be reduced further. For example, I think that a regular user does not want to see

checkout-index, citool, convert-objects, filter-branch, get-tar-commit-id, imap-send, instaweb, lost-found, ls-tree, name-rev, rebase--interactive, relink, repack, request-pull, show-ref, var, verify-pack and whatchanged.

This list was not vs the quoted list, but my current list (pretty much tip of Shawn's "next".

Note: I would like to complete the _options_ when one of these subcommands 
was specified, but I just do not want to see them when entering 
"git<SPACE><TAB>".

BTW Pierre's idea of generating many (if not all) of these completions on the fly (maybe with "--help-completion"?) is intriguing.

Ciao, Dscho