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What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) I used bash autocompletion. So: git <tab>
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) The bash environment variable ${COMP_WORDBREAKS} remains unmodified.
What happened instead? (Actual behavior) COMP_WORDBREAKS is modified. Specifically, a colon is appended.
What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? COMP_WORDBREAKS being modified.
Anything else you want to add: This breaks auto-completion of programs that rely on completing arguments that include colons. For example, autocompleting arguments like: "file://abc" - hitting tab gives something like "file:file://abc". As far as I'm aware, modifying COMP_WORDBREAKS is no longer considered good practice.
Doing some research, I see the following patch, which I'd be in favor of using: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/git/patch/20201104174716.783348-6-felipe.contreras@gmail.com/
Not sure if this will just get lost in the noise, but I figured I'd send this at least as a 'bump' towards this issue.
[System Info] git version: git version 2.36.1 cpu: x86_64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh uname: Linux 5.13.0-41-generic #46~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 13:16:21 UTC 2022 x86_64 compiler info: gnuc: 9.4 libc info: glibc: 2.31 $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash
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