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Re: [PATCH 1/8] bash: Remove short option completions for branch/checkout/diff.

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 4, 2007, 10:27 UTC
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<eq4ccg$9ae$1@sea.gmane.org>
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[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]
Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> The short options (-l, -f, -d) for git-branch are rather silly to
> include in the completion generation as these options must be fully
> typed out by the user and most users already know what the options
> are anyway, so including them in the suggested completions does
> not offer huge value.  (The same goes for git-checkout and git-diff.)

Not true. It is nice to have on "git branch -" TAB TAB list of all (well, all included in completion) short options to git-branch.

So I'd vote NAK.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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  1. 1/8 bash: Remove short option completions for branch/checkout/diff.Shawn O. Pearce, Feb 4, 2007
  2. Jakub NarebskiFeb 4, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceFeb 5, 2007
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