# git diff autocomplete 4 messages from 2019-08-18 to 2019-08-26. Participants: Dhaval Patel, Santiago Torres Arias, Andreas Schwab. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/51662 ## Dhaval Patel, 2019-08-18 02:44 Subject: git diff autocomplete Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CADSGPzV%2BdfNR%3Depmz2whKkrpiH%3DJMUR4gVjpZ%2Bx%2BkzKrX0kD-A%40mail.gmail.com ``` How to reproduce git init touch abc.txt touch abd.txt git add a* git commit -m 'first commit' echo 'hello' > abc.txt git add a[PRESS TAB] (This will autocomplete 'git add abc.txt') git diff a[PRESS TAB] (This will not give 'git diff abc.txt') Suggested feature - when I press tab, git diff should autocomplete just like git add. ``` ## Santiago Torres Arias, 2019-08-18 02:47 Subject: Re: git diff autocomplete Message-ID: <20190818024757.765fx3tdfekseim5@LykOS.localdomain> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20190818024757.765fx3tdfekseim5%40LykOS.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 08:14:15AM +0530, Dhaval Patel wrote: > How to reproduce > > [snip] > Suggested feature - > > when I press tab, git diff should autocomplete just like git add. I think this is somewhat harder of a usecase, as git add generally takes paths and diff can compare revisions *and* paths. I see that if I do git diff -- [TAB] I get all the paths as an autocomplete option, which I think is desired behavior. Thanks, -Santiago. ``` ## Dhaval Patel, 2019-08-26 15:48 Subject: git diff autocomplete Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CADSGPzVgweL4tCEqg3LvfXbp%3DHZyQ7BngKpVrFp0_0SFJZVezQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` If it is only about files and revisions both being handled by git diff, would it not ne possible to do something like this? For files git diff -f a[PRESS TAB] For revisions git diff -r a[PRESS TAB] Some sort of flag which says we are handling files or revisions. ``` ## Andreas Schwab, 2019-08-26 17:09 Subject: Re: git diff autocomplete Message-ID: <87mufvzwen.fsf@igel.home> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87mufvzwen.fsf%40igel.home In-Reply-To: ``` On Aug 26 2019, Dhaval Patel wrote: > If it is only about files and revisions both being handled by git > diff, would it not ne possible to do something like this? > > For files > > git diff -f a[PRESS TAB] > > For revisions > > git diff -r a[PRESS TAB] > > Some sort of flag which says we are handling files or revisions. That already exists, it is spelt `--'. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different." ```