# Re: [StGIT PATCH] StGIT bash completion

6 messages from 2006-11-12 to 2006-11-16. Participants: Karl Hasselström, Catalin Marinas, Shawn Pearce.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43335

## Karl Hasselström, 2006-11-12 21:18

Subject: [StGIT PATCH] StGIT bash completion
Message-ID: <20061112211813.19959.73406.stgit@localhost>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20061112211813.19959.73406.stgit%40localhost

```
From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>

A minimal bash completion script for StGIT. It completes the
subcommand names, and options and patch names for some subcommands.

Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
---

I'm not good at all at bash programming -- this script was basically
put together by pattern-matching Shawns git completion code -- so
comments are even more welcome than usual.

 contrib/stgit-completion.bash |  156 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/stgit-completion.bash b/contrib/stgit-completion.bash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..25549fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/stgit-completion.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+# bash completion support for StGIT                        -*- shell-script -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2006, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
+# Based on git-completion.sh
+#
+# To use these routines:
+#
+#    1. Copy this file to somewhere (e.g. ~/.stgit-completion.bash).
+#
+#    2. Add the following line to your .bashrc:
+#         . ~/.stgit-completion.bash
+
+# The path to .git, or empty if we're not in a repository.
+_gitdir ()
+{
+    echo "$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)"
+}
+
+# Name of the current branch, or empty if there isn't one.
+_current_branch ()
+{
+    local b=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)
+    echo ${b#refs/heads/}
+}
+
+# List of all applied patches.
+_applied_patches ()
+{
+    local g=$(_gitdir)
+    [ "$g" ] && cat "$g/patches/$(_current_branch)/applied"
+}
+
+# List of all unapplied patches.
+_unapplied_patches ()
+{
+    local g=$(_gitdir)
+    [ "$g" ] && cat "$g/patches/$(_current_branch)/unapplied"
+}
+
+# List of all patches.
+_all_patches ()
+{
+    local b=$(_current_branch)
+    local g=$(_gitdir)
+    [ "$g" ] && cat "$g/patches/$b/applied" "$g/patches/$b/unapplied"
+}
+
+# List of all patches except the current patch.
+_all_other_patches ()
+{
+    local b=$(_current_branch)
+    local g=$(_gitdir)
+    [ "$g" ] && cat "$g/patches/$b/applied" "$g/patches/$b/unapplied" \
+        | grep -v "^$(< $g/patches/$b/current)$"
+}
+
+# Generate completions for patches and patch ranges from the given
+# patch list function, and options from the given list.
+_complete_patch_range ()
+{
+    local patchlist="$1" options="$2"
+    local pfx cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
+    case "$cur" in
+        *..*)
+            pfx="${cur%..*}.."
+            cur="${cur#*..}"
+            COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "$pfx" -W "$($patchlist)" -- "$cur"))
+            ;;
+        *)
+            COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$options $($patchlist)" -- "$cur"))
+            ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+# Generate completions for options from the given list.
+_complete_options ()
+{
+    local options="$1"
+    COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$options" -- "${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"))
+}
+
+_stg_delete ()
+{
+    _complete_patch_range _all_patches "--branch --help"
+}
+
+_stg_goto ()
+{
+    _complete_patch_range _all_other_patches "--help"
+}
+
+_stg_mail ()
+{
+    _complete_patch_range _all_patches \
+        "--all --to --cc --bcc --auto --noreply --version --prefix --template \
+         --cover --edit-cover --edit-patches --sleep --refid --smtp-user \
+         --smtp-password --branch --mbox --help"
+}
+
+_stg_new ()
+{
+    _complete_options "--message --showpatch --author --authname --authemail \
+                       --authdate --commname --commemail --help"
+}
+
+_stg_pop ()
+{
+    _complete_patch_range _applied_patches "--all --number --keep --help"
+}
+
+_stg_push ()
+{
+    _complete_patch_range _unapplied_patches "--all --number --reverse \
+                                              --merged --undo --help"
+}
+
+_stg_status ()
+{
+    _complete_options "--modified --new --deleted --conflict --unknown \
+                       --noexclude --reset --help"
+}
+
+_stg ()
+{
+    local i c=1 command
+
+    while [ $c -lt $COMP_CWORD ]; do
+        if [ $c == 1 ]; then
+            command="${COMP_WORDS[c]}"
+        fi
+        c=$((++c))
+    done
+
+    # Complete name of subcommand.
+    if [ $c -eq $COMP_CWORD -a -z "$command" ]; then
+        COMPREPLY=($(compgen \
+            -W "--help --version \
+                $(stg help|grep '^ '|sed 's/ *\([^ ]\) .*/\1/')" \
+            -- "${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"))
+        return;
+    fi
+
+    # Complete arguments to subcommands.
+    case "$command" in
+        delete) _stg_delete ;;
+        goto)   _stg_goto ;;
+        mail)   _stg_mail ;;
+        new)    _stg_new ;;
+        pop)    _stg_pop ;;
+        push)   _stg_push ;;
+        status) _stg_status ;;
+        *)      COMPREPLY=() ;;
+    esac
+}
+

```

## Shawn Pearce, 2006-11-13 05:04

Subject: Re: [StGIT PATCH] StGIT bash completion
Message-ID: <20061113050453.GA31488@spearce.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20061113050453.GA31488%40spearce.org
In-Reply-To: <20061112211813.19959.73406.stgit@localhost>

```
Karl Hasselstr?m <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
> 
> A minimal bash completion script for StGIT. It completes the
> subcommand names, and options and patch names for some subcommands.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
> ---
> 
> I'm not good at all at bash programming -- this script was basically
> put together by pattern-matching Shawns git completion code -- so
> comments are even more welcome than usual.

I'm not an StGIT user, but this looks pretty good.

-- 

```

## Catalin Marinas, 2006-11-16 14:21

Subject: Re: [StGIT PATCH] StGIT bash completion
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0611160621g60a0cac2r5205e37ed7d9fe9f@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/b0943d9e0611160621g60a0cac2r5205e37ed7d9fe9f%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20061112211813.19959.73406.stgit@localhost>

```
On 12/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> A minimal bash completion script for StGIT. It completes the
> subcommand names, and options and patch names for some subcommands.

Thanks for the patch. I modified it slightly to automatically generate
the options for other commands as well (by invoking "stg help
<command>" and it doesn't seem to be slow). I'll try to push it
tonight.

Thanks for the other patches as well. I included some but haven't
finished them yet.

-- 

```

## Karl Hasselström, 2006-11-16 15:40

Subject: Re: [StGIT PATCH] StGIT bash completion
Message-ID: <20061116154002.GA20729@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20061116154002.GA20729%40diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0611160621g60a0cac2r5205e37ed7d9fe9f@mail.gmail.com>

```
On 2006-11-16 14:21:27 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> On 12/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
>
> > A minimal bash completion script for StGIT. It completes the
> > subcommand names, and options and patch names for some
> > subcommands.
>
> Thanks for the patch. I modified it slightly to automatically
> generate the options for other commands as well (by invoking "stg
> help <command>" and it doesn't seem to be slow). I'll try to push it
> tonight.

Hmm. I'll have to try it, but I was half planning to hard-code the
list of subcommands instead of calling "stg help" since it causes a
tangible delay. On the machines I've tried, it easily takes 0.2
seconds to run "stg help" (with hot caches; with cold caches, it's
_really_ bad), and that's bad for interactive behavior.

There's also the point that some switches need (or can benefit from)
the tab completion machinery, and thus can't just be automatically
extracted and used. But autocompleting the switch names shouldn't
interfere with that, and hard-coding stuff that changes every now and
then is both morally wrong and a lot of work.

> Thanks for the other patches as well. I included some

Ah, thanks!

>  but haven't finished them yet.

No problem. Thanks to the power of modern version control systems, I'm
able to use my own branch of StGIT in the meantime, on all the various
computers that I use. :-)

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com

```

## Catalin Marinas, 2006-11-16 16:12

Subject: Re: [StGIT PATCH] StGIT bash completion
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0611160812s6ffec19fm4bf079e08e5fce01@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/b0943d9e0611160812s6ffec19fm4bf079e08e5fce01%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20061116154002.GA20729@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

```
On 16/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> On 2006-11-16 14:21:27 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Thanks for the patch. I modified it slightly to automatically
> > generate the options for other commands as well (by invoking "stg
> > help <command>" and it doesn't seem to be slow). I'll try to push it
> > tonight.
>
> Hmm. I'll have to try it, but I was half planning to hard-code the
> list of subcommands instead of calling "stg help" since it causes a
> tangible delay. On the machines I've tried, it easily takes 0.2
> seconds to run "stg help" (with hot caches; with cold caches, it's
> _really_ bad), and that's bad for interactive behavior.

Indeed, stg help takes over 200ms on my machine as well, with hot
caches but this is mainly because it imports all the stgit.commands.*
modules in order to read the short description. The 'stg help
<command>' takes around 90ms on my machine since it only imports one
module (I actually reduced it to 85ms by minimizing the imports even
further).

I could actually hard-code the commands only in the script. At the
moment I removed the _stg_* functions and added some common
_stg_all_patches() to avoid duplicating the code (see attached).

-- 
Catalin

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## Karl Hasselström, 2006-11-16 16:29

Subject: Re: [StGIT PATCH] StGIT bash completion
Message-ID: <20061116162958.GB20729@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20061116162958.GB20729%40diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0611160812s6ffec19fm4bf079e08e5fce01@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2006-11-16 16:12:43 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> Indeed, stg help takes over 200ms on my machine as well, with hot
> caches but this is mainly because it imports all the
> stgit.commands.* modules in order to read the short description. The
> 'stg help <command>' takes around 90ms on my machine since it only
> imports one module

Excellent. However, this suggests that an option should be added to
stg that makes it print just the subcommand names, without importing
anything, to get this kind of speed there as well. Call it
--generate-tab-completion or something, and don't print it in the help
output.

> (I actually reduced it to 85ms by minimizing the imports even
> further).

Goodie. For reference, I think git was able to list its subcommands in
about 20 ms. Just so you know what to aim for. :-)

> I could actually hard-code the commands only in the script. At the
> moment I removed the _stg_* functions and added some common
> _stg_all_patches() to avoid duplicating the code (see attached).

Seems reasonable.

Next time I do some StGIT hacking (not this weekend, unfortunately), I
was planning to build more tab-completion stuff. On top of my list are
fixing basic completion for all subcommands, and fixing some kind of
filename completion. But do feel free to do it first if you like. :-)

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com

```
