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Re: [PATCH] completion: exclude previous file arguments in Zsh

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 4, 2026, 21:13 UTC
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SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:
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> What will be excluded in the following command line:
>
>   git -C dir -C subdir -c foo.bar=baz add file1 file2 <TAB>
>
> I think we should exclude only those arguments that come after the git
> command, in this case after "add", i.e. "file1" and "file2", but I
> suspect that everything starting with "dir" will get excluded.
I was writing the same message when I saw yours.

If you had a file called 'add' in the working tree and then typed "a<TAB>" to complete, is 'add' offered together with other files whose name begins with 'a'?

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