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[RFH] "git -C there add foo" completes, s/add/diff/ does not

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2024, 18:34 UTC
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As some of you may already know, I keep an untracked directory called "Meta" at the top-level of the working tree of the Git source tree. This "Meta" directory is actually a single-branch clone of the git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git that checks out its "todo" branch, where files like whats-cooking.txt lives.

So, what I often would do is
    $ git -C Meta add whats-cooking.txt

after updating the draft of the next issue of the "What's cooking" report. The command line completion support for "git add" knows how to complete this when I stopped typing the above after whats-" and hit <TAB>. It seems that __git_find_repo_path helper function that notices "-C there" and discovers the $GIT_DIR, and _git_add helper uses __git_complete_index_file that honors the discovered $GIT_DIR to find paths in the correct index, which is wonderful.

But the same does not work for the step before I can decide to actually "add" the contents, which is to "diff", i.e.

    $ git -C Meta diff whats-<TAB>
does not complete.
Anybody wants to take a crack at it?
Thanks.
Next: Kyle Lippincott
Message 1 of 3 in “[RFH] "git -C there add foo" completes, s/add/diff/ does not”
  1. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2024
  2. Kyle LippincottFeb 8, 2024
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2024

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