From: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:09:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Completion must sort before using uniq
Message-ID: <k8nb0t$2pf$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAFj1UpF2wh0imcqW7Ez_J14R_07a_A1-YWESaGrHRNa7Nsv-xg@mail.gmail.com>

Marc Khouzam wrote:
> The uniq program only works with sorted input.  The man page states
> "uniq prints the unique lines in a sorted file".
...
> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ __git_refs ()
>                                if [[ "$ref" == "$cur"* ]]; then
>                                        echo "$ref"
>                                fi
> -                       done | uniq -u
> +                       done | sort | uniq -u

Is 'sort -u' not universally available and sufficient here? It is POSIX at 
least:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sort.html

Bye, Jojo