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Junio C Hamano
eff5d693ad Merge branch 'du/cherry-is-plumbing'
Doc update to mark "git cherry" as a plumbing command.

* du/cherry-is-plumbing:
  doc: move git-cherry to plumbing
2018-10-26 14:22:14 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
aef8e71f15 Merge branch 'nd/complete-fetch-multiple-args'
Teach bash completion that "git fetch --multiple" only takes remote
names as arguments and no refspecs.

* nd/complete-fetch-multiple-args:
  completion: support "git fetch --multiple"
2018-10-19 13:34:01 +09:00
Daniels Umanovskis
61018fe9e0 doc: move git-cherry to plumbing
Also remove git-cherry from Bash completion because plumbing
commands do not belong there.

Signed-off-by: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-12 08:26:49 +09:00
Steven Fernandez
705f5f122c git-completion.bash: add completion for stash list
Since stash list accepts git-log options, add the following useful
options that make sense in the context of the `git stash list` command:

  --name-status --oneline --patch-with-stat

Signed-off-by: Steven Fernandez <steve@lonetwin.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-07 10:05:49 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
b5619f6d2b completion: support "git fetch --multiple"
When --multiple is given, the remaining arguments are remote names,
not one remote followed by zero or more refspec. Detect this case,
disable refspec completion, and pretend no remote is seen in order to
complete multiple of them.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-21 09:34:43 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
275267937b range-diff: make --dual-color the default mode
After using this command extensively for the last two months, this
developer came to the conclusion that even if the dual color mode still
leaves a lot of room for confusion about what was actually changed, the
non-dual color mode is substantially worse in that regard.

Therefore, we really want to make the dual color mode the default.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-13 10:44:52 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
7190a67eab completion: support git range-diff
Tab completion of `git range-diff` is very convenient, especially
given that the revision arguments to specify the commit ranges to
compare are typically more complex than, say, what is normally passed
to `git log`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-13 10:44:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6da2d95951 Merge branch 'nd/completion-negation'
Continuing with the idea to programmatically enumerate various
pieces of data required for command line completion, the codebase
has been taught to enumerate options prefixed with "--no-" to
negate them.

* nd/completion-negation:
  completion: collapse extra --no-.. options
  completion: suppress some -no- options
  parse-options: option to let --git-completion-helper show negative form
2018-06-28 12:53:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f0209e80cf Merge branch 'ls/complete-remote-update-names'
"git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a
nickname for remote groups, and the completion script (in contrib/)
has been taught about it.

* ls/complete-remote-update-names:
  completion: complete remote names too
2018-06-25 13:22:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ebaf0a56f3 Merge branch 'nd/complete-config-vars'
Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various
pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the
codebase to report the list of configuration variables
subcommands care about to help complete them.

* nd/complete-config-vars:
  completion: complete general config vars in two steps
  log-tree: allow to customize 'grafted' color
  completion: support case-insensitive config vars
  completion: keep other config var completion in camelCase
  completion: drop the hard coded list of config vars
  am: move advice.amWorkDir parsing back to advice.c
  advice: keep config name in camelCase in advice_config[]
  fsck: produce camelCase config key names
  help: add --config to list all available config
  fsck: factor out msg_id_info[] lazy initialization code
  grep: keep all colors in an array
  Add and use generic name->id mapping code for color slot parsing
2018-06-25 13:22:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4d605b0f38 Merge branch 'sg/completion-zsh-workaround'
Work around zsh segfaulting when loading git-completion.zsh

* sg/completion-zsh-workaround:
  completion: correct zsh detection when run from git-completion.zsh
2018-06-13 12:50:45 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
61d48c66ea completion: correct zsh detection when run from git-completion.zsh
v2.18.0-rc0~90^2 (completion: reduce overhead of clearing cached
--options, 2018-04-18) worked around a bug in bash's "set" builtin on
MacOS by using compgen instead.  It was careful to avoid breaking zsh
by guarding this workaround with

	if [[ -n ${ZSH_VERSION-}} ]]

Alas, this interacts poorly with git-completion.zsh's bash emulation:

	ZSH_VERSION='' . "$script"

Correct it by instead using a new GIT_SOURCING_ZSH_COMPLETION shell
variable to detect whether git-completion.bash is being sourced from
git-completion.zsh.  This way, the zsh variant is used both when run
from zsh directly and when run via git-completion.zsh.

Reproduction recipe:

 1. cd git/contrib/completion && cp git-completion.zsh _git
 2. Put the following in a new ~/.zshrc file:

 	autoload -U compinit; compinit
	autoload -U bashcompinit; bashcompinit
	fpath=(~/src/git/contrib/completion $fpath)

 3. Open zsh and "git <TAB>".

With this patch:
Triggers nice git-completion.bash based tab completion

Without:
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash:354: read-only variable: QISUFFIX
 zsh:12: command not found: ___main
 zsh:15: _default: function definition file not found
 _dispatch:70: bad math expression: operand expected at `/usr/bin/g...'
 Segmentation fault

Reported-by: Rick van Hattem <wolph@wol.ph>
Reported-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-12 10:13:44 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
b221b5ab9b completion: collapse extra --no-.. options
The commands that make use of --git-completion-helper feature could
now produce a lot of --no-xxx options that a command can take. This in
many case could nearly double the amount of completable options, using
more screen estate and also harder to search for the wanted option.

This patch attempts to mitigate that by collapsing extra --no-
options, the ones that are added by --git-completion-helper and not in
original struct option arrays. The "--no-..." option will be displayed
in this case to hint about more options, e.g.

    > ~/w/git $ git clone --
    --bare                 --origin=
    --branch=              --progress
    --checkout             --quiet
    --config=              --recurse-submodules
    --depth=               --reference=
    --dissociate           --reference-if-able=
    --filter=              --separate-git-dir=
    --hardlinks            --shallow-exclude=
    --ipv4                 --shallow-since=
    --ipv6                 --shallow-submodules
    --jobs=                --shared
    --local                --single-branch
    --mirror               --tags
    --no-...               --template=
    --no-checkout          --upload-pack=
    --no-hardlinks         --verbose
    --no-tags

and when you complete it with --no-<tab>, all negative options will be
presented:

    > ~/w/git $ git clone --no-
    --no-bare                 --no-quiet
    --no-branch               --no-recurse-submodules
    --no-checkout             --no-reference
    --no-config               --no-reference-if-able
    --no-depth                --no-separate-git-dir
    --no-dissociate           --no-shallow-exclude
    --no-filter               --no-shallow-since
    --no-hardlinks            --no-shallow-submodules
    --no-ipv4                 --no-shared
    --no-ipv6                 --no-single-branch
    --no-jobs                 --no-tags
    --no-local                --no-template
    --no-mirror               --no-upload-pack
    --no-origin               --no-verbose
    --no-progress

Corner case: to make sure that people will never accidentally complete
the fake option "--no-..." there must be one real --no- in the first
complete listing even if it's not from the original struct option.

PS. This could could be made simpler with ";&" to fall through from
"--no-*" block and share the code but ";&" is not available on bash-3
(i.e. Mac)

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-11 10:38:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2289880f78 Merge branch 'nd/command-list'
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
bit more consolidated to allow more automation.

* nd/command-list:
  completion: allow to customize the completable command list
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
  Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
  completion: reduce completable command list
  completion: let git provide the completable command list
  command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
  help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
  help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
  git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
  completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
  git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
  git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
  Remove common-cmds.h
  help: use command-list.h for common command list
  generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
  generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
2018-06-01 15:06:37 +09:00
Łukasz Stelmach
9cd4382ad5 completion: complete remote names too
"git remote update" accepts both groups and single remotes.

Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-01 10:44:29 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
4ce72180ab Merge branch 'sg/complete-paths'
Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete pathnames
for various commands better.

* sg/complete-paths:
  t9902-completion: exercise __git_complete_index_file() directly
  completion: don't return with error from __gitcomp_file_direct()
  completion: fill COMPREPLY directly when completing paths
  completion: improve handling quoted paths in 'git ls-files's output
  completion: remove repeated dirnames with 'awk' during path completion
  t9902-completion: ignore COMPREPLY element order in some tests
  completion: use 'awk' to strip trailing path components
  completion: let 'ls-files' and 'diff-index' filter matching paths
  completion: improve handling quoted paths on the command line
  completion: support completing non-ASCII pathnames
  completion: simplify prefix path component handling during path completion
  completion: move __git_complete_index_file() next to its helpers
  t9902-completion: add tests demonstrating issues with quoted pathnames
2018-05-30 14:04:08 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
f22f682695 completion: complete general config vars in two steps
There are 581 config variables as of now when you do "git config
<tab>" which can fill up a few screens and is not very helpful when
you have to look through columns of text to find what you want.

This patch instead shows you only first level when you do

    git config <tab>

There are 78 items, which use up 8 rows in my screen. Compared to
screens of text, it's pretty good. Once you have chosen you first
level, e.g. color:

    git config color.<tab>

will show you all color.*

This is not a new idea. branch.* and remote.* completion already does
this for second and third levels. For those variables, you'll need to
<tab> three times to get full variable name.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29 14:51:29 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
bea2125928 completion: support case-insensitive config vars
Config variables are case-insensitive but this case/esac construct is
case-sensitive by default. For bash v4, it'll be easy. For platforms
that are stuck with older versions, we need an external command, but
that is not that critical. And where this additional overhead matters
the most is Windows, but luckily Git for Windows ships with Bash v4.

Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29 14:51:29 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
f45db831c1 completion: keep other config var completion in camelCase
The last patch makes "git config <tab>" shows camelCase names because
that's what's in the source: config.txt. There are still a couple
manual var completion in this code. Let's make them follow the naming
convention as well.

In theory we could automate this part too because we have the
information. But let's stick to one step at a time and leave this for
later.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29 14:51:28 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
e17ca92637 completion: drop the hard coded list of config vars
The new help option --config-for-completion is a machine friendlier
version of --config where all the placeholders and wildcards are
dropped, leaving only the good, completable prefixes for
git-completion.bash to consume.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29 14:51:28 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
17b3e51505 Merge branch 'nd/command-list' into nd/complete-config-vars
* nd/command-list:
  completion: allow to customize the completable command list
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
  Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
  completion: reduce completable command list
  completion: let git provide the completable command list
  command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
  help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
  help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
  git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
  completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
  git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
  git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
  Remove common-cmds.h
  help: use command-list.h for common command list
  generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
  generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
2018-05-29 14:51:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2b1c01d22e parse-options: option to let --git-completion-helper show negative form
When 7fb6aefd2a (Merge branch 'nd/parseopt-completion' - 2018-03-14)
is merged, the completion for negative form is left out because the
series is alread long and it could be done in a follow up series. This
is it.

--git-completion-helper now provides --no-xxx so that git-completion.bash
can drop the extra custom --no-xxx in the script. It adds a lot more
--no-xxx than what's current provided by the git-completion.bash
script. We'll trim that down later.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29 13:28:44 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
fb3a0cabf2 Merge branch 'fg/completion-external'
The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load
custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a
custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using
newer version of bash.

* fg/completion-external:
  completion: load completion file for external subcommand
2018-05-23 14:38:25 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
df20b622fa Merge branch 'nd/completion-aliasfiletype-typofix'
Typofix.

* nd/completion-aliasfiletype-typofix:
  completion: fix misspelled config key aliasesfiletype
2018-05-23 14:38:24 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
2c18e6ae24 Merge branch 'js/rebase-recreate-merge'
"git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole
topology of commit graph elsewhere.

* js/rebase-recreate-merge:
  rebase -i --rebase-merges: add a section to the man page
  rebase -i: introduce --rebase-merges=[no-]rebase-cousins
  pull: accept --rebase=merges to recreate the branch topology
  rebase --rebase-merges: avoid "empty merges"
  sequencer: handle post-rewrite for merge commands
  sequencer: make refs generated by the `label` command worktree-local
  rebase --rebase-merges: add test for --keep-empty
  rebase: introduce the --rebase-merges option
  rebase-helper --make-script: introduce a flag to rebase merges
  sequencer: fast-forward `merge` commands, if possible
  sequencer: introduce the `merge` command
  sequencer: introduce new commands to reset the revision
  git-rebase--interactive: clarify arguments
  sequencer: offer helpful advice when a command was rescheduled
  sequencer: refactor how original todo list lines are accessed
  sequencer: make rearrange_squash() a bit more obvious
  sequencer: avoid using errno clobbered by rollback_lock_file()
2018-05-23 14:38:20 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6532f3740b completion: allow to customize the completable command list
By default we show porcelain, external commands and a couple others
that are also popular. If you are not happy with this list, you can
now customize it a new config variable.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
3301d36b29 completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
By providing aliases via --list-cmds=, we could simplify command
collection code in the script. We only issue one git command. Before
this patch that is "git config", after it's "git --list-cmds=". In
"git help" completion case we actually reduce one "git" process (for
getting guides) but that call was added in this series so it does not
really count.

A couple of bash functions are removed because they are not needed
anymore. __git_compute_all_commands() and $__git_all_commands stay
because they are still needed for completing pager.* config and
without "alias" group, the result is still cacheable.

There is a slight (good) change in _git_help() with this patch: before
"git help <tab>" shows external commands (as in _not_ part of git) as
well as part of $__git_all_commands. We have finer control over
command listing now and can exclude that because we can't provide a
man page for external commands anyway.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
e11dca10cf completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
84a9713106 completion: let git provide the completable command list
Instead of maintaining a separate list of command classification,
which often could go out of date, let's centralize the information
back in git.

While the function in git-completion.bash implies "list porcelain
commands", that's not exactly what it does. It gets all commands (aka
--list-cmds=main,others) then exclude certain non-porcelain ones. We
could almost recreate this list two lists list-mainporcelain and
others. The non-porcelain-but-included-anyway is added by the third
category list-complete.

Note that the current completion script incorrectly classifies
filter-branch as porcelain and t9902 tests this behavior. We keep it
this way in t9902 because this test does not really care which
particular command is porcelain or plumbing, they're just names.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
1b81d8cb19 help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
The help command currently hard codes the list of guides and their
summary in C. Let's move this list to command-list.txt. This lets us
extract summary lines from Documentation/git*.txt. This also
potentially lets us list guides in git.txt, but I'll leave that for
now.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6bb2dc0b94 completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
This is part of the effort to break down and provide commands by
category in machine-readable form. This could be helpful later on when
completion script switches to use --list-cmds for selecting
completable commands. It would be much easier for the user to choose
to complete _all_ commands instead of the default selection by passing
different values to --list-cmds in git-completino.bash.

While at there, replace "git help -a" in git-completion.bash with
--list-cmds since it's better suited for this task.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
0089521cac git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
Even if these are hidden options, let's make them a bit more generic
since we're introducing more listing types shortly. The code is
structured to allow combining multiple listing types together because
we will soon add more types the 'builtins'.

'parseopt' remains separate because it has separate (SPC) to match
git-completion.bash needs and will not combine with others.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:13 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
8b4c2e0b1c completion: don't return with error from __gitcomp_file_direct()
In __gitcomp_file_direct() we tell Bash that it should handle our
possible completion words as filenames with the following piece of
cleverness:

  # use a hack to enable file mode in bash < 4
  compopt -o filenames +o nospace 2>/dev/null ||
  compgen -f /non-existing-dir/ > /dev/null

Unfortunately, this makes this function always return with error
when it is not invoked in real completion, but e.g. in tests of
't9902-completion.sh':

  - First the 'compopt' line errors out
    - either because in Bash v3.x there is no such command,
    - or because in Bash v4.x it complains about "not currently
      executing completion function",

  - then 'compgen' just silently returns with error because of the
    non-existing directory.

Since __gitcomp_file_direct() is now the last command executed in
__git_complete_index_file(), that function returns with error as well,
which prevents it from being invoked in tests directly as is, and
would require extra steps in test to hide its error code.

So let's make sure that __gitcomp_file_direct() doesn't return with
error, because in the tests coming in the following patch we do want
to exercise __git_complete_index_file() directly,

__gitcomp_file() contains the same construct, and thus it, too, always
returns with error.  Update that function accordingly as well.

While at it, also remove the space from between the redirection
operator and the filename in both functions.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 09:38:17 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
79d92b113c Merge branch 'tg/demote-stash-save-in-completion'
The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught that "git
stash save" has been deprecated ("git stash push" is the preferred
spelling in the new world) and does not offer it as a possible
completion candidate when "git stash push" can be.

* tg/demote-stash-save-in-completion:
  completion: make stash -p and alias for stash push -p
  completion: stop showing 'save' for stash by default
2018-05-08 15:59:32 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
1dfb929a37 Merge branch 'sg/completion-clear-cached'
The completion script (in contrib/) learned to clear cached list of
command line options upon dot-sourcing it again in a more efficient
way.

* sg/completion-clear-cached:
  completion: reduce overhead of clearing cached --options
2018-05-08 15:59:25 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b10edb2df5 Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph'
Precompute and store information necessary for ancestry traversal
in a separate file to optimize graph walking.

* ds/commit-graph:
  commit-graph: implement "--append" option
  commit-graph: build graph from starting commits
  commit-graph: read only from specific pack-indexes
  commit: integrate commit graph with commit parsing
  commit-graph: close under reachability
  commit-graph: add core.commitGraph setting
  commit-graph: implement git commit-graph read
  commit-graph: implement git-commit-graph write
  commit-graph: implement write_commit_graph()
  commit-graph: create git-commit-graph builtin
  graph: add commit graph design document
  commit-graph: add format document
  csum-file: refactor finalize_hashfile() method
  csum-file: rename hashclose() to finalize_hashfile()
2018-05-08 15:59:20 +09:00
Florian Gamböck
085e2ee0e6 completion: load completion file for external subcommand
Adding external subcommands to Git is as easy as to put an executable
file git-foo into PATH. Packaging such subcommands for a Linux
distribution can be achieved by unpacking the executable into /usr/bin
of the user's system. Adding system-wide completion scripts for new
subcommands, however, can be a bit tricky.

Since bash-completion started to use dynamical loading of completion
scripts since v1.90 (preview of v2.0), it is no longer sufficient to
drop a completion script of a subcommand into the standard completions
path, /usr/share/bash-completion/completions, since this script will not
be loaded if called as a git subcommand.

For example, look at https://bugs.gentoo.org/544722. To give a short
summary: The popular git-flow subcommand provides a completion script,
which gets installed as /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git-flow.

If you now type into a Bash shell:

    git flow <TAB>

You will not get any completions, because bash-completion only loads
completions for git and git has no idea that git-flow is defined in
another file. You have to load this script manually or trigger the
dynamic loader with:

    git-flow <TAB> # Please notice the dash instead of whitespace

This will not complete anything either, because it only defines a Bash
function, without generating completions. But now the correct completion
script has been loaded and the first command can use the completions.

So, the goal is now to teach the git completion script to consider the
possibility of external completion scripts for subcommands, but of
course without breaking current workflows.

I think the easiest method is to use a function that was defined by
bash-completion v1.90, namely _completion_loader. It will take care of
loading the correct script if present. Afterwards, the git completion
script behaves as usual.

_completion_loader was introduced in commit 20c05b43 of bash-completion
(https://github.com/scop/bash-completion.git) back in 2011, so it should
be available in even older LTS distributions. This function searches for
external completion scripts not only in the default path
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions, but also in the user's home
directory via $XDG_DATA_HOME and in a user specified directory via
$BASH_COMPLETION_USER_DIR.

The only "drawback" (if it even can be called as such) is, that if
_completion_loader does not find a completion script, it automatically
registers a minimal function for basic path completion. In practice,
however, this will not matter, because in this case the given command is
a git command in its dashed form, e.g. 'git-diff-index', and those have
been deprecated for a long time.

This way we can leverage bash-completion's dynamic loading for git
subcommands and make it easier for developers to distribute custom
completion scripts.

Signed-off-by: Florian Gamböck <mail@floga.de>
Acked-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-07 23:24:45 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
92c4a7a129 completion: fix misspelled config key aliasesfiletype
The correct name in git-send-email.perl is aliasfiletype [1]. There are
actually two instances of this misspelling. The other was found and
fixed in 6068ac8848 (completion: add missing configuration variables -
2010-12-20)

[1] 994d6c66d3 (send-email: address expansion for common mailers - 2006-05-14)

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-06 18:50:55 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
1131ec9818 pull: accept --rebase=merges to recreate the branch topology
Similar to the `preserve` mode simply passing the `--preserve-merges`
option to the `rebase` command, the `merges` mode simply passes the
`--rebase-merges` option.

This will allow users to conveniently rebase non-trivial commit
topologies when pulling new commits, without flattening them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-26 12:28:43 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
8f6aed71d2 rebase: introduce the --rebase-merges option
Once upon a time, this here developer thought: wouldn't it be nice if,
say, Git for Windows' patches on top of core Git could be represented as
a thicket of branches, and be rebased on top of core Git in order to
maintain a cherry-pick'able set of patch series?

The original attempt to answer this was: git rebase --preserve-merges.

However, that experiment was never intended as an interactive option,
and it only piggy-backed on git rebase --interactive because that
command's implementation looked already very, very familiar: it was
designed by the same person who designed --preserve-merges: yours truly.

Some time later, some other developer (I am looking at you, Andreas!
;-)) decided that it would be a good idea to allow --preserve-merges to
be combined with --interactive (with caveats!) and the Git maintainer
(well, the interim Git maintainer during Junio's absence, that is)
agreed, and that is when the glamor of the --preserve-merges design
started to fall apart rather quickly and unglamorously.

The reason? In --preserve-merges mode, the parents of a merge commit (or
for that matter, of *any* commit) were not stated explicitly, but were
*implied* by the commit name passed to the `pick` command.

This made it impossible, for example, to reorder commits. Not to mention
to move commits between branches or, deity forbid, to split topic branches
into two.

Alas, these shortcomings also prevented that mode (whose original
purpose was to serve Git for Windows' needs, with the additional hope
that it may be useful to others, too) from serving Git for Windows'
needs.

Five years later, when it became really untenable to have one unwieldy,
big hodge-podge patch series of partly related, partly unrelated patches
in Git for Windows that was rebased onto core Git's tags from time to
time (earning the undeserved wrath of the developer of the ill-fated
git-remote-hg series that first obsoleted Git for Windows' competing
approach, only to be abandoned without maintainer later) was really
untenable, the "Git garden shears" were born [*1*/*2*]: a script,
piggy-backing on top of the interactive rebase, that would first
determine the branch topology of the patches to be rebased, create a
pseudo todo list for further editing, transform the result into a real
todo list (making heavy use of the `exec` command to "implement" the
missing todo list commands) and finally recreate the patch series on
top of the new base commit.

That was in 2013. And it took about three weeks to come up with the
design and implement it as an out-of-tree script. Needless to say, the
implementation needed quite a few years to stabilize, all the while the
design itself proved itself sound.

With this patch, the goodness of the Git garden shears comes to `git
rebase -i` itself. Passing the `--rebase-merges` option will generate
a todo list that can be understood readily, and where it is obvious
how to reorder commits. New branches can be introduced by inserting
`label` commands and calling `merge <label>`. And once this mode will
have become stable and universally accepted, we can deprecate the design
mistake that was `--preserve-merges`.

Link *1*:
https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/blob/master/share/msysGit/shears.sh
Link *2*:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/master/shears.sh

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-26 12:28:43 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
3a940e90d5 Merge branch 'cb/bash-completion-ls-files-processing'
Shell completion (in contrib) that gives list of paths have been
optimized somewhat.

* cb/bash-completion-ls-files-processing:
  completion: improve ls-files filter performance
2018-04-25 13:29:02 +09:00
Thomas Gummerer
df70b190bd completion: make stash -p and alias for stash push -p
We define 'git stash -p' as an alias for 'git stash push -p' in the
manpage.  Do the same in the completion script, so all options that
can be given to 'git stash push' are being completed when the user is
using 'git stash -p --<tab>'.  Currently the only additional option
the user will get is '--message', but there may be more in the future.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-20 10:39:50 +09:00
Thomas Gummerer
0eb5a4f911 completion: stop showing 'save' for stash by default
The 'save' subcommand in git stash has been deprecated in
fd2ebf14db ("stash: mark "git stash save" deprecated in the man page",
2017-10-22).

Stop showing it when the users enters 'git stash <tab>' or 'git stash
s<tab>'.  Keep showing it however when the user enters 'git stash sa<tab>'
or any more characters of the 'save' subcommand.  This is designed to
not encourage users to use 'git stash save', but still leaving the
completion option once it's clear that's what the user means.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-20 10:39:48 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
94408dc71c completion: reduce overhead of clearing cached --options
To get the names of all '$__git_builtin_*' variables caching --options
of builtin commands in order to unset them, 8b0eaa41f2 (completion:
clear cached --options when sourcing the completion script,
2018-03-22) runs a 'set |sed s///' pipeline.  This works both in Bash
and in ZSH, but has a higher than necessary overhead with the extra
processes.

In Bash we can do better: run the 'compgen -v __gitcomp_builtin_'
builtin command, which lists the same variables, but without a
pipeline and 'sed' it can do so with lower overhead.
ZSH will still continue to run that pipeline.

This change also happens to work around an issue in the default Bash
version shipped in macOS (3.2.57), reported by users of the Powerline
shell prompt, which was triggered by the same commit 8b0eaa41f2 as
well.  Powerline uses several Unicode Private Use Area code points to
represent some of its pretty text UI elements (arrows and what not),
and these are stored in the $PS1 variable.  Apparently the 'set'
builtin of said Bash version on macOS has issues with these code
points, and produces garbled output where Powerline's special symbols
should be in the $PS1 variable.  This, in turn, triggers the following
error message in the downstream 'sed' process:

  sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence

Other Bash versions, notably 4.4.19 on macOS via homebrew (i.e. a
newer version on the same platform) and 3.2.25 on CentOS (i.e. a
slightly earlier version, though on a different platform) are not
affected.  ZSH in macOS (the versions shipped by default or installed
via homebrew) or on other platforms isn't affected either.

With this patch neither the 'set' builtin is invoked to print garbage,
nor 'sed' to choke on it.

Issue-on-macOS-reported-by: Stephon Harris <theonestep4@gmail.com>
Issue-on-macOS-explained-by: Matthew Coleman <matt@1eanda.com>
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-18 08:43:31 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
7b00342068 completion: fill COMPREPLY directly when completing paths
During git-aware path completion, when a lot of path components have
to be listed, a significant amount of time is spent in
__gitcomp_file(), or more accurately in the shell loop of
__gitcompappend(), iterating over all the path components filtering
path components matching the current word to be completed, adding
prefix path components, and placing the resulting matching paths into
the COMPREPLY array.

Now, a previous patch in this series made 'git ls-files' and 'git
diff-index' list only paths matching the current word to be completed,
so an additional filtering in __gitcomp_file() is not necessary
anymore.  Adding the prefix path components could be done much more
efficiently in __git_index_files()'s 'awk' script while stripping
trailing path components and removing duplicates and quoting.  And
then the resulting paths won't require any more filtering or
processing before being handed over to Bash, so we could fill the
COMPREPLY array directly.

Unfortunately, we can't simply use the __gitcomp_direct() helper
function to do that, because __gitcomp_file() does one additional
thing: it tells Bash that we are doing filename completion, so the
shell will kindly do four important things for us:

  1. Append a trailing space to all filenames.
  2. Append a trailing '/' to all directory names.
  3. Escape any meta, globbing, separator, etc. characters.
  4. List only the current path component when listing possible
     completions (i.e. 'dir/subdir/f<TAB>' will list 'file1', 'file2',
     etc. instead of the whole 'dir/subdir/file1',
     'dir/subdir/file2').

While we could let __git_index_files()'s 'awk' script take care of the
first two points, the third one gets tricky, and we absolutely need
the shell's support for the fourth.

Add the helper function __gitcomp_file_direct(), which, just like
__gitcomp_direct(), fills the COMPREPLY array with prefiltered and
preprocessed paths without any additional processing, without a shell
loop, with just one single compound assignment, and, similar to
__gitcomp_file(), tells Bash and ZSH that we are doing filename
completion.  Extend __git_index_files()'s 'awk' script a bit to
prepend any prefix path components to all listed paths.  Finally,
modify __git_complete_index_file() to feed __git_index_files()'s
output to ___gitcomp_file_direct() instead of __gitcomp_file().

After this patch there is no shell loop left in the path completion
code path.

This speeds up path completion when there are a lot of paths matching
the current word to be completed.  In a pathological repository with
100k files in a single directory, listing all those files:

  Before this patch, best of five, using GNU awk on Linux:

    $ time cur=dir/ __git_complete_index_file

    real    0m0.983s
    user    0m1.004s
    sys     0m0.033s

  After:

    real    0m0.313s
    user    0m0.341s
    sys     0m0.029s

  Difference: -68.2%
  Speedup:      3.1x

  To see the benefits of the whole patch series, the same command with
  v2.17.0:

    real    0m2.736s
    user    0m2.472s
    sys     0m0.610s

  Difference: -88.6%
  Speedup:      8.7x

Note that this patch changes the output of the __git_index_files()
helper function by unconditionally prepending the prefix path
components to every listed path.  This would break users' completion
scriptlets that directly run:

  __gitcomp_file "$(__git_index_files ...)" "$pfx" "$cur_"

because that would add the prefix path components once more.
However, __git_index_files() is kind of a "helper function of a helper
function", and users' completion scriptlets should have been using
__git_complete_index_file() for git-aware path completion in the first
place, so this is likely doesn't worth worrying about.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-17 12:49:37 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
193757f806 completion: improve handling quoted paths in 'git ls-files's output
If any pathname contains backslash, double quote, tab, newline, or any
control characters, 'git ls-files' and 'git diff-index' will enclose
that pathname in double quotes and escape those special characters
using C-style one-character escape sequences or \nnn octal values.
This prevents those files from being listed during git-aware path
completion, because due to the quoting they will never match the
current word to be completed.

Extend __git_index_files()'s 'awk' script to remove all that quoting
and escaping from unique path components, so even paths containing
(almost all) such special characters can be completed.

Paths containing newline characters are still an issue, though.  We
use newlines as separator character when filling the COMPREPLY array,
so a path with one or more newline will end up split to two or more
elements in COMPREPLY, basically breaking completion.  There is
nothing we can do about it without a significant performance hit, so
let's just ignore such paths for now.  As far as paths with newlines
are concerned, this isn't any different from the previous behavior,
because those paths were always omitted, though in the past they were
omitted because due to the quoting they didn't match the current word
to be completed.  Anyway, Bash's own filename completion (Meta-/) can
complete even those paths, if need be.

Note:

  - We don't dequote path components right away as they are coming in,
    because then we would have to dequote each directory name
    repeatedly, as many times as it appears in the input, i.e. as many
    times as the number of listed paths it contains.  Instead, we
    dequote them at the end, as we print unique path components.

  - Even when a directory name itself does not contain any special
    characters, it will still be quoted if any of its trailing path
    components do.  If a directory contains paths both with and
    without special characters, then the name of that directory will
    appear both quoted and unquoted in the output of 'git ls-files'
    and 'git diff-index'.  Consequently, we will add such a directory
    name to the deduplicating associative array twice: once quoted and
    once unquoted.

    This means that we have to be careful after dequoting a directory
    name, and only print it if we haven't seen the same directory name
    unquoted.

  - It would be wonderful if we could just pass '-z' to those git
    commands to output \0-separated unquoted paths, and use \0 as
    record separator in the 'awk' script processing their output...
    this patch would be so much simpler, almost trivial even.
    Unfortunately, however, POSIX and most 'awk' implementations don't
    support \0 as record separator (GNU awk does support it).

  - This patch makes the earlier change to list paths with
    'core.quotePath=false' basically redundant, because this could
    decode any \nnn-escaped non-ASCII character just fine, as well.
    However, I suspect that 'git ls-files' can deal with those
    non-ASCII characters faster than this updated 'awk' script; just
    in case someone is burdened with tons of pathnames containing
    non-ASCII characters.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-17 12:49:36 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
c1bc0a0e92 completion: remove repeated dirnames with 'awk' during path completion
During git-aware path completion, after all the trailing path
components have been removed from the output of 'git ls-files' and
'git diff-index' (see previous patch), each directory name is repeated
as many times as the number of listed paths it contains.  This can be
a lot of repetitions, especially when invoking path completion close
to the root of a big worktree, which would cause a considerable
overhead downstream of __git_index_files(), in particular in the shell
loop that fills the COMPREPLY array.  To reduce this overhead,
__git_index_files() runs the classic '... |sort |uniq' pattern to
remove those repetitions from the function's output.

While removing repeated directory names is effective in reducing the
number of iterations in that shell loop, it still imposes the overhead
of fork()+exec()ing two external processes, and two additional stages
in the pipeline, where potentially relatively large amount of data can
be passed between two subsequent pipeline stages.

Extend __git_index_files()'s 'awk' script to remove repeated path
components by first creating and filling an associative array indexed
by all encountered path components (after the trailing path components
have been removed), and then iterating over this array and printing
the indices, i.e. unique path components.  This way we can remove the
'|sort |uniq' pipeline stages, and their eliminated overhead results
in faster path completion.

Listing all tracked files (12) and directories (23) at the top of the
worktree in linux.git (over 62k files), i.e. what's doing all the hard
work behind 'git rm <TAB>':

  Before this patch, best of five, using GNU awk on Linux:

    real    0m0.069s
    user    0m0.089s
    sys     0m0.026s

  After:

    real    0m0.052s
    user    0m0.072s
    sys     0m0.014s

  Difference: -24.6%

Note that this changes order of elements in __git_index_files()'s
output.  This is not an issue, because this function was only ever
intended to feed paths into the COMPREPLY array, and Bash will sort
its elements (according to the users locale) anyway.

Note also that using 'awk' to remove repeated path components is also
beneficial for the performance of the next two patches:

  - The first will extend this 'awk' script to dequote quoted paths in
    the output of 'git ls-files' and 'git diff-index'.  With this
    patch it will only have to dequote unique path components, not
    all.

  - The second will, among other things, extend this 'awk' script to
    prepend prefix path components from the command line to the
    currently completed path component.  Consequently, each line in
    'awk's output will grow longer.  Without this patch that '|sort
    |uniq' would have to exchange and process that much more data.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-17 12:49:36 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
105c0efff3 completion: use 'awk' to strip trailing path components
During git-aware path completion we complete one path component at a
time, i.e. 'git add <TAB>' offers only 'dir/' at first, not
'dir/subdir/file' right away, just like Bash's own filename
completion.  However, since both 'git ls-files' and 'git diff-index'
dive deep into subdirectories, we have to strip all trailing path
components from the listed paths, keeping only the leading path
component.  This stripping is currently done in a shell loop in
__git_index_files(), which can take a significant amount of time when
it has to iterate through a large number of paths.

Replace this shell loop with a little 'awk' script using '/' as input
field separator and printing the first field, which produces the same
output much faster.

Listing all tracked files (12) and directories (23) at the top of the
worktree in linux.git (over 62k files), i.e. what's doing all the hard
work behind 'git rm <TAB>':

  Before this patch, best of five, using GNU awk on Linux:

    $ time cur= __git_complete_index_file

    real    0m2.149s
    user    0m1.307s
    sys     0m1.086s

  After:

    real    0m0.067s
    user    0m0.089s
    sys     0m0.023s

  Difference: -96.9%
  Speedup:     32.1x

Note that this could be done with 'sed', or even with 'cut', just as
well, but the upcoming patches require 'awk's scriptability.

Note also that this change means one more fork()+exec()ed process
during path completion, adding more overhead especially on Windows,
but a later patch will more than make up for it by eliminating two
other processes in the same function.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-17 12:49:36 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
a364e984d1 completion: let 'ls-files' and 'diff-index' filter matching paths
During git-aware path completion, e.g. 'git rm dir/fil<TAB>', both
'git ls-files' and 'git diff-index' list all paths in the given 'dir/'
matching certain criteria (cached, modified, untracked, etc.)
appropriate for the given git command, even paths whose names don't
begin with 'fil'.  This comes with a considerable performance
penalty when the directory in question contains a lot of paths, but
the current word can be uniquely completed or when only a handful of
those paths match the current word.

Reduce the number of iterations in this codepath from the number of
paths to the number of matching paths by specifying an appropriate
globbing pattern to 'git ls-files' and 'git diff-index' to list only
paths that match the current word to be completed.

Note that both commands treat backslashes as escape characters in
their file arguments, e.g. to preserve the literal meaning of globbing
characters, so we have to double every backslash in the globbing
pattern.  This is why one of the path completion tests specifically
checks the completion of a path containing a literal backslash
character (that test still fails, though, because both commands output
such paths enclosed in double quotes and the special characters
escaped; a later patch in this series will deal with those).

This speeds up path completion considerably when there are a lot of
non-matching paths to be filtered out.  Uniquely completing a tracked
filename at the top of the worktree in linux.git (over 62k files),
i.e. what's doing all the hard work behind 'git rm Mak<TAB>' to
complete 'Makefile':

  Before this patch, best of five, on Linux:

    $ time cur=Mak __git_complete_index_file

    real    0m2.159s
    user    0m1.299s
    sys     0m1.089s

  After:

    real    0m0.033s
    user    0m0.023s
    sys     0m0.015s

  Difference: -98.5%
  Speedup:     65.4x

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-17 12:49:36 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
f12785a3a7 completion: improve handling quoted paths on the command line
Our git-aware path completion doesn't work when it has to complete a
word already containing quoted and/or backslash-escaped characters on
the command line.  The root cause of the issue is that completion
functions see all words on the command line verbatim, i.e. including
all backslash, single and double quote characters that the shell would
eventually remove when executing the finished command.  These
quoting/escaping characters cause different issues depending on which
path component of the word to be completed contains them:

  - The quoting/escaping is in the prefix path component(s).

    Let's suppose we have a directory called 'New Dir', containing two
    untracked files 'file.c' and 'file.o', and we have a gitignore
    rule ignoring object files.  In this case all of these:

      git add New\ Dir/<TAB>
      git add "New Dir/<TAB>
      git add 'New Dir/<TAB>

    should uniquely complete 'file.c' right away, but Bash offers both
    'file.c' and 'file.o' instead.  The reason for this behavior is
    that our completion script uses the prefix directory name like
    'git -C "New\ Dir/" ls-files ...", i.e. with the backslash inside
    double quotes.  Git then tries to enter a directory called
    'New\ Dir', which (most likely) fails because such a directory
    doesn't exists.  As a result our completion script doesn't list
    any files, leaves the COMPREPLY array empty, which in turn causes
    Bash to fall back to its simple filename completion and lists all
    files in that directory, i.e. both 'file.c' and 'file.o'.

  - The quoting/escaping is in the path component to be completed.

    Let's suppose we have two untracked files 'New File.c' and
    'New File.o', and we have a gitignore rule ignoring object files.
    In this case all of these:

      git add New\ Fi<TAB>
      git add "New Fi<TAB>
      git add 'New Fi<TAB>

    should uniquely complete 'New File.c' right away, but Bash offers
    both 'New File.c' and 'New File.o' instead.  The reason for this
    behavior is that our completion script uses this 'New\ Fi' or
    '"New Fi' etc. word to filter matching paths, and of course none
    of the potential filenames will match because of the included
    backslash or double quote.  The end result is the same as above:
    the completion script doesn't list any files, Bash falls back to
    its filename completion, which then lists the matching object file
    as well.

Add the new helper function __git_dequote() [1], which removes (most
of[2]) the quoting and escaping from the word it gets as argument.  To
minimize the overhead of calling this function, store its result in
the variable $dequoted_word, supposed to be declared local in the
caller; simply printing the result would require a command
substitution imposing the overhead of fork()ing a subshell.  Use this
function in __git_complete_index_file() to dequote the current word,
i.e. the path, to be completed, to avoid the above described
quoting-related issues, thereby fixing two of the failing quoted path
completion tests.

[1] The bash-completion project already has a dequote() function,
    which I hoped I could borrow to deal with this, but unfortunately
    it doesn't work quite well for this purpose (perhaps that's why
    even the bash-completion project only rarely uses it).  The main
    issue is that their dequote() is implemented as:

      eval printf %s "$1" 2> /dev/null

    where $1 would contain the word to be completed.  While it's a
    short and sweet one-liner, the use of 'eval' requires that $1 is a
    syntactically valid string, which is not the case when quoting the
    path like 'git add "New Dir/<TAB>'.  This causes 'eval' to fail,
    because it can't find the matching closing double quote, and the
    function returns nothing.  The result is totally broken behavior,
    as if the current word were empty, and the completion script would
    then list all files from the current directory.  This is why one
    of the quoted path completion tests specifically checks the
    completion of a path with an opening but without a corresponding
    closing double quote character.  Furthermore, the 'eval' performs
    all kinds of expansions, which may or may not be desired; I think
    it's the latter.  Finally, using this function would require a
    command substitution.

[2] Bash understands the $'string' quoting as well, which "expands to
    'string', with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specified
    by the ANSI C standard" (quoted from Bash manpage).  Since shell
    metacharacters, field separators, globbing, etc. can all be easily
    entered using standard shell escaping or quoting, this type of
    quoting comes in handly when dealing with control characters that
    are otherwise difficult both to "type" and to see on the command
    line.  Because of this difficulty I would assume that people do
    avoid pathnames with such control characters anyway, so I didn't
    bother implementing it.  This function is already way too long as
    it is.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-17 12:49:36 +09:00