Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] completion: hide dotfiles for selected path completion

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 23, 2026, 23:48 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4ihpclo8.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2311.v3.git.git.1781978156.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Zakariyah Ali via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> The completion helper for index paths uses git ls-files rather than shell
> filename completion. As a result, leading-dot paths such as a tracked
> .gitignore were offered even when the user had not started the path with ..

I was reviewing the draft of the What's Cooking report and noticed that this topic is among a handful of stalled efforts going nowhere.

I think we are still waiting for a hopefully small and final update (v4) to conclude this topic for close to a month, without any news. Will we see an update anytime soon? If not, let me mark the topic to be discarded in my draft of the whats-cooking report.

Thanks.