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Re: [PATCH] squash! completion: fill COMPREPLY directly when completing refs

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 10, 2017, 21:44 UTC
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<20170206181545.12869-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:
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> Care should be taken, though, because that prefix might contain
> 'for-each-ref' format specifiers as part of the left hand side of a
> '..' range or '...' symmetric difference notation or fetch/push/etc.
> refspec, e.g. 'git log "evil-%(refname)..br<TAB>'.  Doubling every '%'
> in the prefix will prevent 'git for-each-ref' from interpolating any
> of those contained format specifiers.
> ---
>
> This is really pathological, and I'm sure this has nothing to do
> with whatever breakage Jacob experienced.  The shell
> metacharacters '(' and ')' still cause us trouble in various ways,
> but that's nothing new and has been the case for quite a while
> (always?).
>
> It's already incorporated into (the rewritten)
>
>   https://github.com/szeder/git completion-refs-speedup

Should I expect a reroll to come, or is this the only fix-up to the series that begins at <20170203025405.8242-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>?

No hurries.
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Message 9 of 23 in “completion: speed up refs completion”
  1. 00/12 completion: speed up refs completionSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  2. 01/12 completion: remove redundant __gitcomp_nl() options from _git_commit()SZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  3. 02/12 completion: wrap __git_refs() for better option parsingSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  4. 07/12 completion: let 'for-each-ref' and 'ls-remote' filter matching refsSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  5. 03/12 completion: support completing full refs after '--option=refs/<TAB>'SZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  6. 08/12 completion: let 'for-each-ref' strip the remote name from remote branchesSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  7. 12/12 completion: fill COMPREPLY directly when completing refsSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  8. squash! completion: fill COMPREPLY directly when completing refsSZEDER Gábor, Feb 6, 2017
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2017
  10. SZEDER GáborFeb 13, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 13, 2017
  12. 10/12 completion: let 'for-each-ref' sort remote branches for 'checkout' DWIMerySZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  13. 11/12 completion: list only matching symbolic and pseudorefs when completing refsSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  14. 06/12 completion: don't disambiguate short refsSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  15. 04/12 completion: support excluding full refsSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  16. 05/12 completion: don't disambiguate tags and branchesSZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  17. 09/12 completion: let 'for-each-ref' filter remote branches for 'checkout' DWIMerySZEDER Gábor, Feb 3, 2017
  18. Jacob KellerFeb 3, 2017
  19. Jacob KellerFeb 4, 2017
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2017
  21. Jacob KellerFeb 6, 2017
  22. SZEDER GáborFeb 6, 2017
  23. Jacob KellerFeb 6, 2017

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