From: Andrey <butirsky@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:26:57 GMT
Subject: Re: bash completion bug: "symbolic-ref" subcommand doesn't complete
Message-ID: <edc6cbe7-905c-4eb7-9829-5c41f2a8beb0@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqikb1ggri.fsf@gitster.g>

 From what I can see, the file supplying the completion is common for 
bash/zsh, but still, the behavior is different:

|$ head /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git
# bash/zsh completion support for core Git.
...|

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On 3/12/26 19:21, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andrey <butirsky@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Bash can't complete some commands, e.g. symbolic-ref, bugreport, maybe
>> others.
> Isn't this working as intended?
>
> Our general principle is that the plumbing commands are not designed
> to be "typed" by end-user to use interactively, and cat-file,
> commit-tree, etc. are not completed to reduce cluttering when the
> user does
>
> 	$ git <TAB>
>
> If zsh completion includes plumbing commands, then zsh completion is
> buggy, or those who designed zsh completion did not understand the
> general principle ;-).