Re: Bash completion for git aliases containing nested subcommands

Hi Peff,

thanks a lot for your reply.

 > It feels like this ought to be able to work, for the same reason that
 > "git stash show <TAB>" works. In the non-aliased case, we call into
 > _git_stash(), and it sees that "show" is already there on the command
 > line. But in the aliased case, we know "show" is part of the alias but
 > throw away that information completely, and never feed it to
 > _git_stash() at all.

I actually got the same impression when looking into the __git_aliased_command implementation. I just wasn't familiar enough with the code to actually come up with a solution. So thanks for your patch, that makes my use-case work indeed! Do you think there's a chance to get this upstream?

Best wishes, Tim