In order to do partial commits, git-commit overlays a tree on the
cache and checks pathspecs against the result. Currently, the
overlaying is done using "prefix" which prevents relative pathspecs
with ".." and absolute pathspec from matching when they refer to
files not under "prefix" and absent from the index, but still in
the tree (i.e. files staged for removal).
The point of providing a prefix at all is performance optimization.
If we say there is no common prefix for the files of interest, then
we have to read the entire tree into the index.
But even if we cannot use the working directory as a prefix, we can
still figure out if there is a common prefix for all given paths,
and use that instead. The pathspec_prefix() routine from ls-files.c
does exactly that.
Any use of global variables is removed from pathspec_prefix() so
that it can be called from commit.c.
Reported-by: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Analyzed-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* bc/maint-status-z-to-use-porcelain:
builtin/commit.c: set status_format _after_ option parsing
t7508: demonstrate status's failure to use --porcelain format with -z
Conflicts:
builtin/commit.c
* 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
Templates should be just that: A form that the user fills out, and forms
have blanks. If people are attached to not having extra whitespace in the
editor, they can simply clean up their templates.
Added test with editor adding even more whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Boris Faure <billiob@gmail.com>
Based-on-patch-by:Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@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>
Make git commit --interactive feel more like git add --interactive by
allowing the user to restrict the list of files they have to deal with.
A test in t7501 used to ensure that this is not allowed; no need for that
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the behaviour of git commit --interactive so that when you abort
the commit (by leaving the commit message empty) the index remains
unchanged.
Hitherto an aborted commit --interactive has added the selected hunks to
the index regardless of whether the commit succeeded or not.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we had to refresh the index internally before running diff or status,
we opportunistically updated the $GIT_INDEX_FILE so that later invocation
of git can use the lstat(2) we already did in this invocation.
Make them share a helper function to do so.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gettextize the "# Please enter the commit message for your changes."
message. Several tests in t7500-commit.sh and t7502-commit.sh assume
that this message starts with a newline. Change the tests to to skip
under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease.
These fail under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease because the poison editor
message doesn't do the right thing with comments and line breaks, so
these messages will be incorrectly broken up across lines.
This test should not be skipped under a hypothetical future testing
mode that tests Git under language locales, since those messages
should all start with a newline like the original.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gettextize the "(root-commit)" and "detached HEAD" fragments that
appear when you commit either the root commit, or a commit in a
detached head translatable.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gettextize the "You are in the middle of a merge -- cannot amend."
message. Several tests in t7110-reset-merge.sh explicitly checked for
this message. Change them to skip under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
wt-status code is used to provide a reminder of changes included and
not included for the commit message template opened in the operator's
text editor by "git commit". Therefore each line of its output begins
with the comment character "#":
# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
Use the new status_printf{,_ln,_more} functions to take care of adding
"#" to the beginning of such status lines automatically. Using these
will have two advantages over the current code:
- The obvious one is to force separation of the "#" from the
translatable part of the message when git learns to translate its
output.
- Another advantage is that this makes it easier for us to drop "#"
prefix in "git status" output in later versions of git if we want
to.
Explained-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of maintaining a local variable for it, use s->fp to keep
track of where the commit message template should be written.
This prepares us to take advantage of the status_printf functions,
which use a struct wt_status instead of a FILE pointer to determine
where to send their output.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
wt-status code is used to provide a reminder of changes included and
not included for the commit message template opened in the operator's
text editor by "git commit". Therefore each line of its output begins
with the comment character "#":
# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
Use the new status_printf{,_ln,_more} functions to take care of adding
"#" to the beginning of such status lines automatically. Using these
will have two advantages over the current code:
- The obvious one is to force separation of the "#" from the
translatable part of the message when git learns to translate its
output.
- Another advantage is that this makes it easier for us to drop "#"
prefix in "git status" output in later versions of git if we want
to.
Explained-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of maintaining a local variable for it, use s->fp to keep
track of where the commit message template should be written.
This prepares us to take advantage of the status_printf functions,
which use a struct wt_status instead of a FILE pointer to determine
where to send their output.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git commit" was rewritten in C (v1.5.4-rc0~78^2~30,
2007-11-08), a subtle bug in --template was introduced. If the
file named by a --template parameter is missing, previously git
would error out with a message:
Commit template file does not exist.
but in the C version the --template parameter gets ignored and
the default template is used.
t7500 has two tests for this case which would have caught it, except
that with the default $EDITOR, the commit message template is left
unmodified, causing 'git commit' to error out and the test to
succeed.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously the user was advised to use commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD after
a conflicting cherry-pick. While this would preserve the original
commit's authorship, it would sadly discard cherry-pick's carefully
crafted MERGE_MSG (which contains the list of conflicts as well as the
original commit-id in the case of cherry-pick -x).
On the other hand, if a bare 'commit' were performed, it would preserve
the MERGE_MSG while resetting the authorship.
In other words, there was no way to simultaneously take the authorship
from CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and the commit message from MERGE_MSG.
This change fixes that situation. A bare 'commit' will now take the
authorship from CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and the commit message from MERGE_MSG.
If the user wishes to reset authorship, that must now be done explicitly
via --reset-author.
A side-benefit of passing commit authorship along this way is that we
can eliminate redundant authorship parsing code from revert.c.
(Also removed an unused include from revert.c)
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a cherry-pick conflicts git advises:
$ git commit -c <original commit id>
to preserve the original commit message and authorship. Instead, let's
record the original commit id in CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and advise:
$ git commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
A later patch teaches git to handle the '-c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' part.
Note that we record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD even in the case where there
are no conflicts so that we may use it to communicate authorship to
commit; this will then allow us to remove set_author_ident_env from
revert.c. However, we do not record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD when --no-commit
is used, as presumably the user intends to further edit the commit
and possibly even cherry-pick additional commits on top.
Tests and documentation contributed by Jonathan Nieder.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For its post-commit summary, commit was explicitly setting
the default rename limit to 100. Presumably when the code
was added, it was necessary to do so. These days, however,
it will fall back properly to the diff default, and that
default has long since changed from 100.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
They differ by one character only. Being exactly equal should help
translations.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This also removes the superfluous "specify" and rewords the misleading
"if any" which sounds as if omitting "-m" would omit the merge commit
message. (It means "if a merge commit is created at all".)
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Push has the clearer description, so take that one for all.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the message advises to fix the configuration first, the
advantage of using this command is that it is cut-and-paste ready,
while using --author='...' requires the user to type his name and
email again.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When determine_author_info() returns to the calling prepare_to_commit(),
we already know the pieces of information necessary to determine what
author ident will be used in the final message, but deferred making a call
to fmt_ident() before the final commit_tree(). Most importantly, we would
open the editor to ask the user to compose the log message before it.
As one important side effect of fmt_ident() is to error out when the given
information is malformed, this resulted in us spawning the editor first
and then refusing to commit due to error, even though we had enough
information to detect the error before starting the editor, which was
annoying.
Move the fmt_ident() call to the end of determine_author_info() where we
have final determination of author info to rectify this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jn/git-cmd-h-bypass-setup:
update-index -h: show usage even with corrupt index
merge -h: show usage even with corrupt index
ls-files -h: show usage even with corrupt index
gc -h: show usage even with broken configuration
commit/status -h: show usage even with broken configuration
checkout-index -h: show usage even in an invalid repository
branch -h: show usage even in an invalid repository
Conflicts:
builtin/merge.c
* pn/commit-autosquash:
add tests of commit --squash
commit: --squash option for use with rebase --autosquash
add tests of commit --fixup
commit: --fixup option for use with rebase --autosquash
pretty.c: teach format_commit_message() to reencode the output
commit: helper methods to reduce redundant blocks of code
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-commit.txt
t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh
You can tell "git status" to paint the name of the current branch in its
output (the line that says "On branch ...") by setting the configuration
variable color.status.branch; it is by default turned off.
Signed-off-by: Aleksi Aalto <aga@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows better help text to be defined than "be quiet". Also make use
of the macro in a place 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>
This option makes it convenient to construct commit messages for use
with 'rebase --autosquash'. The resulting commit message will be
"squash! ..." where "..." is the subject line of the specified commit
message. This option can be used with other commit message options
such as -m, -c, -C and -F.
If an editor is invoked (as with -c or -eF or no message options) the
commit message is seeded with the correctly formatted subject line.
Example usage:
$ git commit --squash HEAD~2
$ git commit --squash HEAD~2 -m "clever comment"
$ git commit --squash HEAD~2 -F msgfile
$ git commit --squash HEAD~2 -C deadbeef
Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option makes it convenient to construct commit messages for use
with 'rebase --autosquash'. The resulting commit message will be
"fixup! ..." where "..." is the subject line of the specified commit
message.
Example usage:
$ git commit --fixup HEAD~2
Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* builtin/commit.c: Replace block of code with a one-liner call to
logmsg_reencode().
* commit.c: new function for looking up a comit by name
* pretty.c: helper methods for getting output encodings
Add helpers get_log_output_encoding() and
get_commit_output_encoding() that eliminate some messy and duplicate
if-blocks.
Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git status" and "git commit" read .git/config and .gitmodules before
parsing options, but there is no reason to access a repository at all
when the caller just wanted to know what arguments are accepted.
[jn: rewrote the log message and added test]
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jl/submodule-ignore-diff:
Add tests for the diff.ignoreSubmodules config option
Add the 'diff.ignoreSubmodules' config setting
Submodules: Use "ignore" settings from .gitmodules too for diff and status
Submodules: Add the new "ignore" config option for diff and status
Conflicts:
diff.c
The .gitmodules file is parsed for "submodule.<name>.ignore" entries
before looking for them in .git/config. Thus settings found in .git/config
will override those from .gitmodules, thereby allowing the local developer
to ignore settings given by the remote side while also letting upstream
set defaults for those users who don't have special needs.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since they do not precede setup_revisions, these assignments of 0 to
rev.abbrev have no effect.
v1.7.1.1~17^2~3 (2010-05-03) taught the log --format=%h machinery
to respect --abbrev instead of always abbreviating, so we have to pay
attention to the abbrev setting now.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From api-parse-options.txt:
`description` is a short string to describe the effect of the option.
It shall begin with a lower-case letter and a full stop (`.`) shall be
omitted at the end.
It also makes it less confusing if the argument is 'no.' or 'no'.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some codepaths, such as "git status" and "git commit --dry-run",
tried to opportunisticly refresh the index and write the result
out. But they did so without checking if there was actually any
change that needs to be written out.
Noticed by Jeff King and Daniel at Rutgers.edu
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jl/status-ignore-submodules:
Add the option "--ignore-submodules" to "git status"
git submodule: ignore dirty submodules for summary and status
Conflicts:
builtin/commit.c
t/t7508-status.sh
wt-status.c
wt-status.h
* jp/string-list-api-cleanup:
string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_append
string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_lookup
string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_insert_at_index
string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_insert
string_list: Fix argument order for for_each_string_list
string_list: Fix argument order for print_string_list
Update the definition and callers of string_list_insert to use the
string_list as the first argument. This helps make the string_list
API easier to use by being more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some use cases it is not desirable that "git status" considers
submodules that only contain untracked content as dirty. This may happen
e.g. when the submodule is not under the developers control and not all
build generated files have been added to .gitignore by the upstream
developers. Using the "untracked" parameter for the "--ignore-submodules"
option disables checking for untracked content and lets git diff report
them as changed only when they have new commits or modified content.
Sometimes it is not wanted to have submodules show up as changed when they
just contain changes to their work tree (this was the behavior before
1.7.0). An example for that are scripts which just want to check for
submodule commits while ignoring any changes to the work tree. Also users
having large submodules known not to change might want to use this option,
as the - sometimes substantial - time it takes to scan the submodule work
tree(s) is saved when using the "dirty" parameter.
And if you want to ignore any changes to submodules, you can now do that
by using this option without parameters or with "all" (when the config
option status.submodulesummary is set, using "all" will also suppress the
output of the submodule summary).
A new function handle_ignore_submodules_arg() is introduced to parse this
option new to "git status" in a single location, as "git diff" already
knew it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* gv/portable:
test-lib: use DIFF definition from GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
build: propagate $DIFF to scripts
Makefile: Tru64 portability fix
Makefile: HP-UX 10.20 portability fixes
Makefile: HPUX11 portability fixes
Makefile: SunOS 5.6 portability fix
inline declaration does not work on AIX
Allow disabling "inline"
Some platforms lack socklen_t type
Make NO_{INET_NTOP,INET_PTON} configured independently
Makefile: some platforms do not have hstrerror anywhere
git-compat-util.h: some platforms with mmap() lack MAP_FAILED definition
test_cmp: do not use "diff -u" on platforms that lack one
fixup: do not unconditionally disable "diff -u"
tests: use "test_cmp", not "diff", when verifying the result
Do not use "diff" found on PATH while building and installing
enums: omit trailing comma for portability
Makefile: -lpthread may still be necessary when libc has only pthread stubs
Rewrite dynamic structure initializations to runtime assignment
Makefile: pass CPPFLAGS through to fllow customization
Conflicts:
Makefile
wt-status.h
The environment variable GIT_REFLOG_ACTION was used by git-commit.sh,
but when it was converted to a builtin
(f5bbc3225c, Port git commit to C,
Nov 8 2007) this was lost.
Let's use it again as it is more user friendly when reverting or
cherry-picking to see "revert" or "cherry-pick" in the reflog rather
than to just see "commit".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We generally disallow empty commits with "git commit". The
output produced by the wt_status functions is generally
sufficient to explain what happened.
With --amend commits, however, things are a little more
confusing. We would create an empty commit not if you
actually have staged changes _now_, but if your staged
changes match HEAD^. In this case, it is not immediately
obvious why "git commit" claims no changes, but "git status"
does not. Furthermore, we should point the user in the
direction of git reset, which would eliminate the empty
commit entirely.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds a first line in the output of `git status -s` when given
the option `-b` or `--branch`, showing which branch the user is
currently on, and in case of tracking branches the number of commits on
each branch.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Without this patch at least IBM VisualAge C 5.0 (I have 5.0.2) on AIX
5.1 fails to compile git.
enum style is inconsistent already, with some enums declared on one
line, some over 3 lines with the enum values all on the middle line,
sometimes with 1 enum value per line... and independently of that the
trailing comma is sometimes present and other times absent, often
mixing with/without trailing comma styles in a single file, and
sometimes in consecutive enum declarations.
Clearly, omitting the comma is the more portable style, and this patch
changes all enum declarations to use the portable omitted dangling
comma style consistently.
Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@thewrittenword.com>
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>
Though I have not seen this in the wild, it has been said that there
are likely to be git repositories converted from other version control
systems with an invalid ident line like this one:
author <user@example.com> 18746342 +0000
Because there is no space between the (empty) user name and the email
address, commit --amend chokes. When searching for a
space-left-bracket sequence on the ident line, it finds it in the
committer line, ending up utterly confused.
Better for commit --amend to treat this like a valid ident line with
empty username and complain.
The tests remove the questionable commit objects after use so there is
no chance for them to confuse later tests.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change git-commit(1) to accept the --allow-empty-message option
to allow a commit with an empty message. This is analogous to the
existing --allow-empty option which allows a commit that records
no changes. As these are mainly for interoperating with foreign SCM
systems, and are not meant for normal use, ensure that "git commit -h"
does not talk about them.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was already the case before commit 9e4b7ab6 (git status: not
"commit --dry-run" anymore, 2009-08-15) with the difference that it died
at failure.
It got lost during the new implementation of "git status", which was
meant to only change behaviour when invoked with arguments.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The file descriptor is already defined at the beginning of the function.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/notes-display:
git-notes(1): add a section about the meaning of history
notes: track whether notes_trees were changed at all
notes: add shorthand --ref to override GIT_NOTES_REF
commit --amend: copy notes to the new commit
rebase: support automatic notes copying
notes: implement helpers needed for note copying during rewrite
notes: implement 'git notes copy --stdin'
rebase -i: invoke post-rewrite hook
rebase: invoke post-rewrite hook
commit --amend: invoke post-rewrite hook
Documentation: document post-rewrite hook
Support showing notes from more than one notes tree
test-lib: unset GIT_NOTES_REF to stop it from influencing tests
Conflicts:
git-am.sh
refs.c
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>
