Re: [PATCH] completion: add 'git history' subcommands

> On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 09:56:32PM +0200, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
>> Use the parse-options completion helpers for the "git history"
>> subcommands and their options. Complete positional arguments as
>> revisions, and add coverage for each kind of completion.
>
> Ah, great! I wanted to write shell completion for git-history(1) for a
> while but never really found the time to actually do it.
>
>> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
>> index e875787710..f10813c8d7 100644
>> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
>> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
>> @@ -2137,6 +2137,30 @@ _git_help ()
>>  	fi
>>  }
>>  
>> +_git_history ()
>> +{
>> +	local subcommands subcommand
>> +
>> +	__git_resolve_builtins "history"
>> +
>> +	subcommands="$___git_resolved_builtins"
>> +	subcommand="$(__git_find_subcommand "$subcommands")"
>> +
>> +	if [ -z "$subcommand" ]; then
>> +		__gitcomp "$subcommands"
>> +		return
>> +	fi
>
> Okay. We first try to figure out whether there is any subcommand passed
> by the user already. If not, we complete available subcommands.