From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:21:53 GMT
Subject: Re: bash completion bug: "symbolic-ref" subcommand doesn't complete
Message-ID: <xmqqikb1ggri.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <c1e0c05b-c767-4fcc-859a-4da6b90c4497@gmail.com>

Andrey <butirsky@gmail.com> writes:

> Bash can't complete some commands, e.g. symbolic-ref, bugreport, maybe 
> others.

Isn't this working as intended?

Our general principle is that the plumbing commands are not designed
to be "typed" by end-user to use interactively, and cat-file,
commit-tree, etc. are not completed to reduce cluttering when the
user does

	$ git <TAB>

If zsh completion includes plumbing commands, then zsh completion is
buggy, or those who designed zsh completion did not understand the
general principle ;-).