From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:38:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] completion: complete "git -<TAB>" with short options
Message-ID: <xmqqh5u3nn2n.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo6onjfwl.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> know what those short options are good for.  E.g. I just learned from
>> this patch that the main git command accepts -p and -P options, but I
>> have no idea what they are doing.)
>>
>> So overall I'm somewhat negative on this patch and in general on the
>> direction it takes us, but if we do want to go in this direction, then
>> it will definitely need more justification than this.
>
> Ah, yes, I totally forgot earlier discussions we had long ago, e.g.,
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/20070205024704.GB12917@spearce.org/
>
> Completing potential values for a single letter short option is one
> thihng, but completing single letter short options themselves,
> unless the completion script can offer a short-help somehow, e.g.,
>
>     $ git -<TAB><TAB>
>     -C (chdir there before running the command)
>     -p (enable pager)
>     ...
>
> I agree that it would not be of much use.

We did not see any more comments on this thread during my vacation
;-) so let me declare that we will discard this topic.

Thanks everybody for particupating, and thanks Wiktor for attempting
to make Git a better system.