# Git bug report CDPATH completion 3 messages from 2024-03-11 to 2024-03-11. Participants: Philemon GIRAUD, Junio C Hamano, brian m. carlson. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/61092 ## Philemon GIRAUD, 2024-03-11 14:24 Subject: Git bug report CDPATH completion Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AM6PR10MB28087CFD43779194563F558492242%40AM6PR10MB2808.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM ``` Thank you for filling out a Git bug report! Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue. What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) This bug is about the "git bash" that comes with git for windows I added "export CDPATH=.:/c/some/path" to my .bashrc What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) Given that the folder "/c/some/path/myfolder" exists, I expected to type (from any directory) "cd myf" add that the autocomplete would complete to "cd myfolder" What happened instead? (Actual behavior) The tab completion did not work, nothing happened when pressing tab. What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? Tab completion after cd do work with normal path, but not for addtional path accessible thanks to CDPATH Anything else you want to add: Note that the CDPATH variable do work: "cd myfolder" takes me to "/c/some/path/myfolder" all the time, whatever the starting directory is Lastest bash-completion (https://github.com/scop/bash-completion) do support completion with CDPATH (see https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/blob/master/completions/cd) [System Info] git version: git version 2.44.0.windows.1 cpu: x86_64 built from commit: ad0bbfffa543db6979717be96df630d3e5741331 sizeof-long: 4 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh feature: fsmonitor--daemon uname: Windows 10.0 19045 compiler info: gnuc: 13.2 libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe [Enabled Hooks] not run from a git repository - no hooks to showPhilémon Giraud  | CS engineer ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2024-03-11 18:13 Subject: Re: Git bug report CDPATH completion Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqq8r2or604.fsf%40gitster.g In-Reply-To: ``` Philemon GIRAUD writes: > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) > This bug is about the "git bash" that comes with git for windows > I added "export CDPATH=.:/c/some/path" to my .bashrc FYI, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19886334 is the first hit when I asked "exporting CDPATH" to my search engine. It makes an interesting and educational read. In short, setting CDPATH in your interactive environment, i.e. your .bashrc having CDPATH=..., is a fine convenience measure, exporting it to environment is not. In addition to what people wrote there, it would break many third-party shell scripts that expect their "cd" to work without getting affected. We even explicitly unset CDPATH in our (remaining) shell scripted Porcelain commands to avoid the insanity of it the first thing. ``` ## brian m. carlson, 2024-03-11 21:35 Subject: Re: Git bug report CDPATH completion Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Ze95PCbwn9IE99Kb%40tapette.crustytoothpaste.net In-Reply-To: ``` On 2024-03-11 at 14:24:24, Philemon GIRAUD wrote: > Thank you for filling out a Git bug report! > Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue. Hey, > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) > This bug is about the "git bash" that comes with git for windows > I added "export CDPATH=.:/c/some/path" to my .bashrc > > What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) > Given that the folder "/c/some/path/myfolder" exists, > I expected to type (from any directory) "cd myf" add that the autocomplete would complete to "cd myfolder" This mailing list is for the Git project, which deals only with source distributions of Git and doesn't distribute any associated software (outside of contrib), such as bash. You're reporting a problem with Git for Windows, which should be reported to https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/. Do be sure to search first in case this has already been reported. -- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA ```