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patchbash completion: add diff options

Subject: [PATCH] bash completion: add diff options

## tl;dr

One message between Nov 23, 2007 and Nov 23, 2007. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Johannes Schindelin· Nov 23, 2007, 01:11 UTC · lore

I use "git diff" (the porcelain) really often, and am almost as often annoyed that the completions do not know how to complete something simple as --cached. Now they do.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Show changes to contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +14 −0
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 599b2fc..58e0e53 100755
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -551,6 +551,20 @@ _git_describe ()
 
 _git_diff ()
 {
+	local cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
+	case "$cur" in
+	--*)
+		__gitcomp "--cached --stat --numstat --shortstat --summary
+			--patch-with-stat --name-only --name-status --color
+			--no-color --color-words --no-renames --check
+			--full-index --binary --abbrev --diff-filter
+			--find-copies-harder --pickaxe-all --pickaxe-regex
+			--text --ignore-space-at-eol --ignore-space-change
+			--ignore-all-space --exit-code --quiet --ext-diff
+			--no-ext-diff"
+		return
+		;;
+	esac
 	__git_complete_file
 }
 
-- 
1.5.3.6.1977.g54d30

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