From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:49:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge: support --strategy '?' for git-completion.bash
Message-ID: <xmqqo9lhai46.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180125094031.6584-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Bash completion support gets the list of available strategies with a
> grep and sed trick which does not work on non-C locale since the anchor
> string is translated and it does not cover custom strategies either.
>
> Let's do it a better way and make git-merge provide all available
> strategies in machine-readable form.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Another, perhaps better, option is add "git merge --list-strategies".
>  It requires some code movement, so I'll try with a simpler approach
>  first.

If you run the probing "merge -s help" under C locale, that would
just be a one-liner, no ;-)  I.e.

> -	git merge -s help 2>&1 |
> +	LANG=C LC_ALL=C git merge -s help 2>&1 |

Not rejecting the patch, but just wondering.