Now the logic to decide when to warn has been tightened, we know the
user is in a situation where the current and future behaviours will
be different. Spell out what happens with these two versions and
how to explicitly ask for the behaviour, and suggest "git status" as
a way to inspect the current status.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The earlier logic to warn against "git add subdir" that is run
without "-A" or "--no-all" was only to check any <pathspec> given
exactly spells a directory name that (still) exists on the
filesystem. This had number of problems:
* "git add '*dir'" (note that the wildcard is hidden from the
shell) would not trigger the warning.
* "git add '*.py'" would behave differently between the current
version of Git and Git 2.0 for the same reason as "subdir", but
would not trigger the warning.
* "git add dir" for a submodule "dir" would just update the index
entry for the submodule "dir" without ever recursing into it, and
use of "-A" or "--no-all" would matter. But the logic only
checks the directory-ness of "dir" and gives an unnecessary
warning.
Rework the logic to detect the case where the behaviour will be
different in Git 2.0, and issue a warning only when it matters.
Even with the code before this warning, "git add subdir" will have
to traverse the directory in order to find _new_ files the index
does not know about _anyway_, so we can do this check without adding
an extra pass to find if <pathspec> matches any removed file.
This essentially updates the "add_files_to_cache()" public API to
"update_files_in_cache()" API that is internal to "git add", because
with the "--all" option, the function is no longer about "adding"
paths to the cache, but is also used to remove them.
There are other callers of the former from "checkout" (used when
"checkout -m" prepares the temporary tree that represents the local
modifications to be merged) and "commit" ("commit --include" that
picks up local changes in addition to what is in the index). Since
ADD_CACHE_IGNORE_ERRORS (aka "--no-all") is not used by either of
them, once dust settles after Git 2.0 and the warning becomes
unnecessary, we may want to unify these two functions again.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the spirit of the recent similar change for 'git add -u', avoid
pestering users that restrict their attention to a subdirectory and
will not be affected by the coming change in the behavior of pathless
'git add -A'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common workflow in large projects is to chdir into a subdirectory of
interest and only do work there:
cd src
vi foo.c
make test
git add -u
git commit
The upcoming change to 'git add -u' behavior would not affect such a
workflow: when the only changes present are in the current directory,
'git add -u' will add all changes, and whether that happens via an
implicit "." or implicit ":/" parameter is an unimportant
implementation detail.
The warning about use of 'git add -u' with no pathspec is annoying
because it seemingly serves no purpose in this case. So suppress the
warning unless there are changes outside the cwd that are not being
added.
A previous version of this patch ran two I/O-intensive diff-files
passes: one to find changes outside the cwd, and another to find
changes to add to the index within the cwd. This version runs one
full-tree diff and decides for each change whether to add it or warn
and suppress it in update_callback. As a result, even on very large
repositories "git add -u" will not be significantly slower than the
future default behavior ("git add -u :/"), and the slowdown relative
to "git add -u ." should be a useful clue to users of such
repositories to get into the habit of explicitly passing '.'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make warn_pathless_add() print its warning the first time it is called
and do nothing if called again. This will make it easier to show the
warning on the fly when a relevant condition is detected without
risking showing it multiple times when multiple such conditions hold.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the commands give an actual output (e.g. when ran with -v), the
output is visually mixed with the warning.
An additional blank line makes the actual output more visible.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently warn_pathless_add() is only called directly by cmd_add(),
but that is about to change. Move its definition higher in the file
and pass the "--update" or "--all" option name used in its message
through globals instead of function arguments to make it easier to
call without passing values that will not change through the call
chain.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We originally thought the transition would need a period where "git add
[-u|-A]" without pathspec would be forbidden, but the warning is big
enough to scare people and teach them not to use it (or, if so, to
understand the consequences).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git add subdir/" is run without "-u" or "-A" option, e.g.
$ edit subdir/x
$ create subdir/y
$ rm subdir/z
$ git add subdir/
the command does not notice removal of paths (e.g. subdir/z) from
the working tree. This sometimes confuses new people, as arguably
"git add" is told to record the current state of "subdir/" as a
whole, not the current state of the paths that exist in the working
tree that matches that pathspec (the latter by definition excludes
the state of "subdir/z" because it does not exist in the working
tree).
Plan to eventually make "git add" pretend as if "-A" is given when
there is a pathspec on the command line. When resolving a conflict
to remove a path, the current code tells you to "git rm $path", but
with such a change, you will be able to say "git add $path" (of
course you can do "git add -A $path" today). That means that we can
simplify the advice messages given by "git status". That all will
be in Git 2.0 or later, if we are going to do so.
For that transition to work, people need to learn either to say "git
add --no-all subdir/" when they want to ignore the removed paths
like "subdir/z", or to say "git add -A subdir/" when they want to
take the state of the directory as a whole.
"git add" without any argument will continue to be a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not to explicitly initialize static variables to 0 and instead
let BSS take care of it. Also use OPT_BOOL() to let the command
line arguments set these variables to 0 or 1, instead of the
deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN() aka OPT_COUNTUP().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pathspec is the most widely used term, and is the one defined in
gitglossary.txt. <filepattern> was used only in the synopsys for git-add
and git-commit, and in git-add.txt. Get rid of it.
This patch is obtained with by running:
perl -pi -e 's/filepattern/pathspec/' `git grep -l filepattern`
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Forbid "git add -u" and "git add -A" without pathspec run from a
subdirectory, to train people to type "." (or ":/") to make the
choice of default does not matter.
* mm/add-u-A-sans-pathspec:
add: warn when -u or -A is used without pathspec
Most Git commands that can be used with or without pathspec operate
tree-wide by default, the pathspec being used to restrict their
scope. A few exceptions are: 'git grep', 'git clean', 'git add -u'
and 'git add -A'. When run in a subdirectory without pathspec, they
operate only on paths in the current directory.
The inconsistency of 'git add -u' and 'git add -A' is particularly
problematic since other 'git add' subcommands (namely 'git add -p'
and 'git add -e') are tree-wide by default. It also means that "git
add -u && git commit" will record a state that is different from
what is recorded with "git commit -a".
Flipping the default now is unacceptable, so let's start training
users to type 'git add -u|-A :/' or 'git add -u|-A .' explicitly, to
prepare for the next steps:
* forbid 'git add -u|-A' without pathspec (like 'git add' without
option)
* much later, maybe, re-allow 'git add -u|-A' without pathspec, that
will add all tracked and modified files, or all files, tree-wide.
A nice side effect of this patch is that it makes the :/ magic
pathspec easier to discover for users.
When the command is called from the root of the tree, there is no
ambiguity and no need to change the behavior, hence no need to warn.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new command "git check-ignore" for debugging .gitignore
files.
The variable names may want to get cleaned up but that can be done
in-tree.
* as/check-ignore:
clean.c, ls-files.c: respect encapsulation of exclude_list_groups
t0008: avoid brace expansion
add git-check-ignore sub-command
setup.c: document get_pathspec()
add.c: extract new die_if_path_beyond_symlink() for reuse
add.c: extract check_path_for_gitlink() from treat_gitlinks() for reuse
pathspec.c: rename newly public functions for clarity
add.c: move pathspec matchers into new pathspec.c for reuse
add.c: remove unused argument from validate_pathspec()
dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()
dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory
dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from
dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes
Conflicts:
builtin/ls-files.c
dir.c
Refactor and generally clean up the directory traversal API
implementation.
* as/dir-c-cleanup:
dir.c: rename free_excludes() to clear_exclude_list()
dir.c: refactor is_path_excluded()
dir.c: refactor is_excluded()
dir.c: refactor is_excluded_from_list()
dir.c: rename excluded() to is_excluded()
dir.c: rename excluded_from_list() to is_excluded_from_list()
dir.c: rename path_excluded() to is_path_excluded()
dir.c: rename cryptic 'which' variable to more consistent name
Improve documentation and comments regarding directory traversal API
api-directory-listing.txt: update to match code
This will be reused by a new git check-ignore command.
Also document validate_pathspec().
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extract the body of the for loop in treat_gitlinks() into a separate
check_path_for_gitlink() function so that it can be reused elsewhere.
This paves the way for a new check-ignore sub-command.
Also document treat_gitlinks().
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Perform the following function renames to make it explicit that these
pathspec handling functions are for matching against the index, rather
than against a tree or the working directory.
- fill_pathspec_matches() -> add_pathspec_matches_against_index()
- find_used_pathspec() -> find_pathspecs_matching_against_index()
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extract the following functions from builtin/add.c to pathspec.c, in
preparation for reuse by a new git check-ignore command:
- fill_pathspec_matches()
- find_used_pathspec()
The functions being extracted are not changed in any way, except
removal of the 'static' qualifier.
Also add comments documenting these newly public functions,
including clarifications that they operate on the index.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'argc' argument passed to validate_pathspec() was never used.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Start adopting clearer names for exclude functions. This 'is_*'
naming pattern for functions returning booleans was agreed here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/204661/focus=204924
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rj/path-cleanup:
Call mkpathdup() rather than xstrdup(mkpath(...))
Call git_pathdup() rather than xstrdup(git_path("..."))
path.c: Use vsnpath() in the implementation of git_path()
path.c: Don't discard the return value of vsnpath()
path.c: Remove the 'git_' prefix from a file scope function
In addition to updating the two xstrdup(git_path("...")) call sites
with git_pathdup(), we also fix a memory leak by freeing the memory
allocated to the ADD_EDIT.patch 'file' in the edit_patch() function.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than
necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group
writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").
* ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top:
add: create ADD_EDIT.patch with mode 0666
rerere: make rr-cache fanout directory honor umask
Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by clone
A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than
necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group
writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").
* ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top:
add: create ADD_EDIT.patch with mode 0666
rerere: make rr-cache fanout directory honor umask
Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by clone
"git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
updated.
* jc/ls-files-i-dir:
dir.c: make excluded() file scope static
unpack-trees.c: use path_excluded() in check_ok_to_remove()
builtin/add.c: use path_excluded()
path_excluded(): update API to less cache-entry centric
ls-files -i: micro-optimize path_excluded()
ls-files -i: pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
We should be letting the user's umask take care of
restricting permissions. Even though this is a temporary
file and probably nobody would notice, this brings us in
line with other temporary file creations in git (e.g.,
choosing "e"dit from git-add--interactive).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/
as excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading
paths while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are
also updated.
* jc/ls-files-i-dir:
dir.c: make excluded() file scope static
unpack-trees.c: use path_excluded() in check_ok_to_remove()
builtin/add.c: use path_excluded()
path_excluded(): update API to less cache-entry centric
ls-files -i: micro-optimize path_excluded()
ls-files -i: pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
This only happens in --ignore-missing --dry-run codepath which
presumably nobody should care, but is for completeness.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the HEAD of the submodule matches what is recorded in the index of
the superproject, and it has local changes or untracked files, the patch
offered by "git add -e" for editing shows a diff like this:
diff --git a/submodule b/submodule
<header>
-deadbeef...
+deadbeef...-dirty
Because applying such a patch has no effect to the index, this is a
useless noise. Generate the patch with IGNORE_DIRTY_SUBMODULES flag to
prevent such a change from getting reported.
This patch also loses the "-dirty" suffix from the output when the HEAD of
the submodule is different from what is in the index of the superproject.
As such dirtiness expressed by the suffix does not affect the result of
the patch application at all, there is no information lost if we remove
it. The user could still run "git status" before "git add -e" if s/he
cares about the dirtiness.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This extends the earlier approach to stream a large file directly from the
filesystem to its own packfile, and allows "git add" to send large files
directly into a single pack. Older code used to spawn fast-import, but the
new bulk-checkin API replaces it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ci/commit--interactive-atomic:
Test atomic git-commit --interactive
Add commit to list of config.singlekey commands
Add support for -p/--patch to git-commit
Allow git commit --interactive with paths
t7501.8: feed a meaningful command
Use a temporary index for git commit --interactive
The config machinery already makes section and variable names
lowercase when parsing them, so using strcasecmp for comparison just
feels wasteful. No noticeable change intended.
Noticed-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --interactive flag is already shared by git add and git commit,
share the -p and --patch flags too.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add -u" updates the index with the updated contents from the working
tree by internally running "diff-files" to grab the set of paths that are
different from the index. Then it updates the index entries for the paths
that are modified in the working tree, and deletes the index entries for
the paths that are deleted in the working tree.
It ignored the output from the diff-files that indicated that a path is
unmerged. For these paths, it instead relied on the fact that an unmerged
path is followed by the result of comparison between stage #2 (ours) and
the working tree, and used that to update or delete such a path when it is
used to record the resolution of a conflict.
As the result, when a path did not have stage #2 (e.g. "we deleted while
the other side added"), these unmerged stages were left behind, instead of
recording what the user resolved in the working tree.
Since we recently fixed "diff-files" to indicate if the corresponding path
exists on the working tree for an unmerged path, we do not have to rely on
the comparison with stage #2 anymore. We can instead tell the diff-files
not to compare with higher stages, and use the unmerged output to update
the index to reflect the state of the working tree.
The changes to the test vector in t2200 illustrates the nature of the bug
and the fix. The test expected stage #1 and #3 entries be left behind,
but it was codifying the buggy behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Prepare draft release notes to 1.7.4.2
gitweb: highlight: replace tabs with spaces
make_absolute_path: return the input path if it points to our buffer
valgrind: ignore SSE-based strlen invalid reads
diff --submodule: split into bite-sized pieces
cherry: split off function to print output lines
branch: split off function that writes tracking info and commit subject
standardize brace placement in struct definitions
compat: make gcc bswap an inline function
enums: omit trailing comma for portability
Conflicts:
RelNotes
In a struct definitions, unlike functions, the prevailing style is for
the opening brace to go on the same line as the struct name, like so:
struct foo {
int bar;
char *baz;
};
Indeed, grepping for 'struct [a-z_]* {$' yields about 5 times as many
matches as 'struct [a-z_]*$'.
Linus sayeth:
Heretic people all over the world have claimed that this inconsistency
is ... well ... inconsistent, but all right-thinking people know that
(a) K&R are _right_ and (b) K&R are right.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the "Unstaged changes after refreshing the index:"
translatable. It's displayed under `git add --refresh --verbose`.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the "remove '%s'" message translatable. It's displayed under `git
add -u --verbose`. Also skip the corresponding test when output is not
in the C locale.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the "did not match any files" message translatable, and skip the
test that checks for it when the C_LOCALE_OUTPUT prereq is not
present.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tests t2204 (.gitignore) and t3700 (add) explicitly check for
these messages, so while at it, split each relevant test into a part
that just checks "git add"'s exit status and a part that checks
porcelain output.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/struct-pathspec: (22 commits)
t6004: add pathspec globbing test for log family
t7810: overlapping pathspecs and depth limit
grep: drop pathspec_matches() in favor of tree_entry_interesting()
grep: use writable strbuf from caller for grep_tree()
grep: use match_pathspec_depth() for cache/worktree grepping
grep: convert to use struct pathspec
Convert ce_path_match() to use match_pathspec_depth()
Convert ce_path_match() to use struct pathspec
struct rev_info: convert prune_data to struct pathspec
pathspec: add match_pathspec_depth()
tree_entry_interesting(): optimize wildcard matching when base is matched
tree_entry_interesting(): support wildcard matching
tree_entry_interesting(): fix depth limit with overlapping pathspecs
tree_entry_interesting(): support depth limit
tree_entry_interesting(): refactor into separate smaller functions
diff-tree: convert base+baselen to writable strbuf
glossary: define pathspec
Move tree_entry_interesting() to tree-walk.c and export it
tree_entry_interesting(): remove dependency on struct diff_options
Convert struct diff_options to use struct pathspec
...
Currently, it sounds as if "notice removal of files" distinguishes "-A"
from "-u", and there is no mention of the worktree.
But both notice the removal, and only "-A" adds changes from untracked
files. Say so.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
add: introduce add.ignoreerrors synonym for add.ignore-errors
bash: Match lightweight tags in prompt
git-commit.txt: (synopsis): move -i and -o before "--"
Add OPT__FORCE as a helper macro in the same spirit as OPT__VERBOSE
et.al. to simplify defining -f/--force options.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lstfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows better help text to be defined than "dry run". Also make use
of the macro in places that already had a different description. No
object code changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows better help text to be defined than "be verbose". Also make use
of the macro in places that already had a different description. No
object code changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit c84de70 (excluded_1(): support exclude files in index -
2009-08-20) added support for excluded() where dtype can be NULL. It
was designed specifically for index matching because there was no
other way to extract dtype information from index. It did not support
wildcard matching (for example, "a*/" pattern would fail to match).
The code was probably misread when commit 108da0d (git add: Add the
"--ignore-missing" option for the dry run - 2010-07-10) was made
because DT_UNKNOWN happens to be zero (NULL) too.
Do not pass DT_UNKNOWN/NULL to excluded(), instead pass a pointer to a
variable that contains DT_UNKNOWN. The real dtype will be extracted
from worktree by excluded(), as expected.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes it is useful to know if a file or directory will be ignored
before it is added to the work tree. An example is "git submodule add",
where it would be really nice to be able to fail with an appropriate
error message before the submodule is cloned and checked out.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of production systems with
vendor compilers that choke unless all compound declarations can be
determined statically at compile time, for example hpux10.20 (I can
provide a comprehensive list of our supported platforms that exhibit
this problem if necessary).
This patch simply breaks apart any compound declarations with dynamic
initialisation expressions, and moves the initialisation until after
the last declaration in the same block, in all the places necessary to
have the offending compilers accept the code.
Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@thewrittenword.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c
builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c
you get
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type]
builtin/ builtin.h
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c
which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.
NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.
So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
