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Author SHA1 Message Date
Alex Henrie
9c9b4f2f8b standardize usage info string format
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:

- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-14 09:32:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
098501527f Merge branch 'jc/merge-bases'
The get_merge_bases*() API was easy to misuse by careless
copy&paste coders, leaving object flags tainted in the commits that
needed to be traversed.

* jc/merge-bases:
  get_merge_bases(): always clean-up object flags
  bisect: clean flags after checking merge bases
2015-01-07 12:55:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2ce406ccb8 get_merge_bases(): always clean-up object flags
The callers of get_merge_bases() can choose to leave object flags
used during the merge-base traversal by passing cleanup=0 as a
parameter, but in practice a very few callers can afford to do so
(namely, "git merge-base"), as they need to compute merge base in
preparation for other processing of their own and they need to see
the object without contaminate flags.

Change the function signature of get_merge_bases_many() and
get_merge_bases() to drop the cleanup parameter, so that the
majority of the callers do not have to say ", 1" at the end.

Give a new get_merge_bases_many_dirty() API to support only a few
callers that know they do not need to spend cycles cleaning up the
object flags.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-30 12:51:10 -07:00
David Aguilar
c41a87dd80 refs: make rev-parse --quiet actually quiet
When a reflog is deleted, e.g. when "git stash" clears its stashes,
"git rev-parse --verify --quiet" dies:

	fatal: Log for refs/stash is empty.

The reason is that the get_sha1() code path does not allow us
to suppress this message.

Pass the flags bitfield through get_sha1_with_context() so that
read_ref_at() can suppress the message.

Use get_sha1_with_context1() instead of get_sha1() in rev-parse
so that the --quiet flag is honored.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-19 10:46:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f655651e09 Merge branch 'rs/strbuf-getcwd'
Reduce the use of fixed sized buffer passed to getcwd() calls
by introducing xgetcwd() helper.

* rs/strbuf-getcwd:
  use strbuf_add_absolute_path() to add absolute paths
  abspath: convert absolute_path() to strbuf
  use xgetcwd() to set $GIT_DIR
  use xgetcwd() to get the current directory or die
  wrapper: add xgetcwd()
  abspath: convert real_path_internal() to strbuf
  abspath: use strbuf_getcwd() to remember original working directory
  setup: convert setup_git_directory_gently_1 et al. to strbuf
  unix-sockets: use strbuf_getcwd()
  strbuf: add strbuf_getcwd()
2014-09-02 13:28:44 -07:00
René Scharfe
56b9f6e738 use xgetcwd() to get the current directory or die
Convert several calls of getcwd() and die() to use xgetcwd() instead.
This way we get rid of fixed-size buffers (which can be too small
depending on the used file system) and gain consistent error messages.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-26 11:06:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ad524f834a Merge branch 'jk/misc-fixes-maint'
* jk/misc-fixes-maint:
  apply: avoid possible bogus pointer
  fix memory leak parsing core.commentchar
  transport: fix leaks in refs_from_alternate_cb
  free ref string returned by dwim_ref
  receive-pack: don't copy "dir" parameter
2014-07-28 11:30:41 -07:00
Jeff King
28b3563241 free ref string returned by dwim_ref
A call to "dwim_ref(name, len, flags, &ref)" will allocate a
new string in "ref" to return the exact ref we found. We do
not consistently free it in all code paths, leading to small
leaks. The worst is in get_sha1_basic, which may be called
many times (e.g., by "cat-file --batch"), though it is
relatively unlikely, as it only triggers on a bogus reflog
specification.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-24 13:57:49 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
a76295da78 rev-parse: add --shared-index-path to get shared index path
Normally scripts do not have to be aware about split indexes because
all shared indexes are in $GIT_DIR. A simple "mv $tmp_index
$GIT_DIR/somewhere" is enough. Scripts that generate temporary indexes
and move them across repos must be aware about split index and copy
the shared file as well. This option enables that.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 11:49:41 -07:00
Ilya Bobyr
9bab5b6061 rev-parse --parseopt: option argument name hints
Built-in commands can specify names for option arguments when usage text
is generated for a command.  sh based commands should be able to do the
same.

Option argument name hint is any text that comes after [*=?!] after the
argument name up to the first whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-23 17:28:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
28006fb046 Merge branch 'ds/rev-parse-required-args'
"git rev-parse --default" without the required option argument did
not diagnose it as an error.

* ds/rev-parse-required-args:
  rev-parse: check i before using argv[i] against argc
2014-02-27 14:01:23 -08:00
David Sharp
a43219f2aa rev-parse: check i before using argv[i] against argc
The --prefix, --default, and --resolve-git-dir options to
git-rev-parse require an argument, but when given no argument,
the code uses the NULL read from argv[argc] without checking,
leading to a segfault.

Instead, check first and die() with an error message.

Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-28 14:10:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e9ecee0423 Merge branch 'jk/rev-parse-double-dashes'
"git rev-parse <revs> -- <paths>" did not implement the usual
disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in
the same way.

* jk/rev-parse-double-dashes:
  rev-parse: be more careful with munging arguments
  rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--"
2013-12-27 14:58:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ad70448576 Merge branch 'cc/starts-n-ends-with'
Remove a few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix comparison
functions, and rename them to starts_with and ends_with.

* cc/starts-n-ends-with:
  replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
  strbuf: introduce starts_with() and ends_with()
  builtin/remote: remove postfixcmp() and use suffixcmp() instead
  environment: normalize use of prefixcmp() by removing " != 0"
2013-12-17 12:02:44 -08:00
Jeff King
62f162f8e7 rev-parse: be more careful with munging arguments
When rev-parse looks at whether an argument like "foo..bar" or
"foobar^@" is a difference or parent-shorthand, it internally
munges the arguments so that it can pass the individual rev
arguments to get_sha1(). However, we do not consistently un-munge
the result.

For cases where we do not match (e.g., "doesnotexist..HEAD"), we
would then want to try to treat the argument as a filename.
try_difference gets() this right, and always unmunges in this case.
However, try_parent_shorthand() never unmunges, leading to incorrect
error messages, or even incorrect results:

  $ git rev-parse foobar^@
  foobar
  fatal: ambiguous argument 'foobar': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
  Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
  'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

  $ >foobar
  $ git rev-parse foobar^@
  foobar

For cases where we do match, neither function unmunges. This does
not currently matter, since we are done with the argument. However,
a future patch will do further processing, and this prepares for
it. In addition, it's simply a confusing interface for some cases to
modify the const argument, and others not to.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-09 14:39:16 -08:00
Jeff King
1418567381 rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--"
Rev-parse understands that a "--" may separate revisions and
filenames, and that anything after the "--" is taken as-is.
However, it does not understand that anything before the
token must be a revision (which is the usual rule
implemented by the setup_revisions parser).

Since rev-parse prefers revisions to files when parsing
before the "--", we end up with the correct result (if such
an argument is a revision, we parse it as one, and if it is
not, it is an error either way).  However, we misdiagnose
the errors:

  $ git rev-parse foobar -- >/dev/null
  fatal: ambiguous argument 'foobar': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
  Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
  'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

  $ >foobar
  $ git rev-parse foobar -- >/dev/null
  fatal: bad flag '--' used after filename

In both cases, we should know that the real error is that
"foobar" is meant to be a revision, but could not be
resolved.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-09 11:01:23 -08:00
Christian Couder
5955654823 replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.

The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:

    $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c |
      grep -v strbuf\\.c |
      xargs perl -pi -e '
        s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g;
        s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g;
        s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g;
        s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g;
      '

on the result of preparatory changes in this series.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05 14:13:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
10167eb251 Merge branch 'jc/ref-excludes'
People often wished a way to tell "git log --branches" (and "git
log --remotes --not --branches") to exclude some local branches
from the expansion of "--branches" (similarly for "--tags", "--all"
and "--glob=<pattern>").  Now they have one.

* jc/ref-excludes:
  rev-parse: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards
  rev-list --exclude: export add/clear-ref-exclusion and ref-excluded API
  rev-list --exclude: tests
  document --exclude option
  revision: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards
2013-12-05 12:59:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9dc01bf063 rev-parse: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards
Teach "rev-parse" the same "I'm going to glob, but omit the ones
that match these patterns" feature as "rev-list".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-01 13:09:45 -07:00
Nicolas Vigier
f8c872127d rev-parse --parseopt: add the --stuck-long mode
Add the --stuck-long option to output the options in their long form
if available, and with their arguments stuck.

Contrary to the default form (non stuck arguments and short options),
this can be parsed unambiguously when using options with optional
arguments :

 - in the non stuck form, when an option is taking an optional argument
   you cannot know if the next argument is its optional argument, or the
   next option.

 - the long options form allows to differentiate between an empty argument
   '--option=' and an unset argument '--option', which is not possible
   with short options.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 15:47:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a86a8b9752 Merge branch 'sb/parseopt-boolean-removal'
Convert most uses of OPT_BOOLEAN/OPTION_BOOLEAN that can use
OPT_BOOL/OPTION_BOOLEAN which have much saner semantics, and turn
remaining ones into OPT_SET_INT, OPT_COUNTUP, etc. as necessary.

* sb/parseopt-boolean-removal:
  revert: use the OPT_CMDMODE for parsing, reducing code
  checkout-index: fix negations of even numbers of -n
  config parsing options: allow one flag multiple times
  hash-object: replace stdin parsing OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_COUNTUP
  branch, commit, name-rev: ease up boolean conditions
  checkout: remove superfluous local variable
  log, format-patch: parsing uses OPT__QUIET
  Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOL
  Remove deprecated OPTION_BOOLEAN for parsing arguments
2013-09-04 12:39:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e30db6dbcf Merge branch 'rj/doc-rev-parse'
* rj/doc-rev-parse:
  rev-parse(1): logically group options
  rev-parse: remove restrictions on some options
2013-08-30 10:08:13 -07:00
Stefan Beller
d5d09d4754 Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOL
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN,
2011-09-27). All occurrences of the respective variables have
been reviewed and none of them relied on the counting up mechanism,
but all of them were using the variable as a true boolean.

This patch does not change semantics of any command intentionally.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 11:32:19 -07:00
John Keeping
68889b416d rev-parse: remove restrictions on some options
The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" arguments to
git-rev-parse are currently only handled if they appear first on the
command line (in the case of "--local-env-vars", only if it is the only
argument).  While it may not make sense to use these options when any
others are specified, there is no reason for this restriction and it
might confuse users if these arguments appear to be ignored.

There is no need for any documentation change here as the restrictions
on these options are not documented.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-22 10:43:20 -07:00
John Keeping
12b9d32790 rev-parse: add --prefix option
This makes 'git rev-parse' behave as if it were invoked from the
specified subdirectory of a repository, with the difference that any
file paths which it prints are prefixed with the full path from the top
of the working tree.

This is useful for shell scripts where we may want to cd to the top of
the working tree but need to handle relative paths given by the user on
the command line.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-17 13:30:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7764a3b35c Merge branch 'jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory'
"git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path when
there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.  Update the
command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such a case.

* jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory:
  specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set
2012-09-07 11:09:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
003c84f6d2 specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set
Either end of revision range operator can be omitted to default to HEAD,
as in "origin.." (what did I do since I forked) or "..origin" (what did
they do since I forked).  But the current parser interprets ".."  as an
empty range "HEAD..HEAD", and worse yet, because ".." does exist on the
filesystem, we get this annoying output:

  $ cd Documentation/howto
  $ git log .. ;# give me recent commits that touch Documentation/ area.
  fatal: ambiguous argument '..': both revision and filename
  Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions

Surely we could say "git log ../" or even "git log -- .." to disambiguate,
but we shouldn't have to.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-23 14:37:49 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2c7c184c3b i18n: rev-parse: mark parseopt strings for translation
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-20 12:23:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0958a24d73 Merge branch 'jc/sha1-name-more'
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output
is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish,
and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to
prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names.

* jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits)
  t1512: match the "other" object names
  t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output
  rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix>
  rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish
  reset: the command takes committish
  commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits
  apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs
  sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types
  revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish
  revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags
  sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish()
  sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context()
  sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish
  sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags
  sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits
  sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option
  sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags
  get_sha1(): fix error status regression
  sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names
  sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res"
  ...
2012-07-22 12:55:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9ca724933a Merge branch 'mm/verify-filename-fix' into maint
"git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.

* mm/verify-filename-fix:
  verify_filename(): ask the caller to chose the kind of diagnosis
  sha1_name: do not trigger detailed diagnosis for file arguments
2012-07-11 12:45:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
957d74062c rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix>
The new option allows you to feed an ambiguous prefix and enumerate
all the objects that share it as a prefix of their object names.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-09 16:42:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c036c4c5e4 rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-09 16:42:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
08080894b7 Merge branch 'mm/verify-filename-fix'
"git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.
2012-06-28 15:19:32 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
023e37c377 verify_filename(): ask the caller to chose the kind of diagnosis
verify_filename() can be called in two different contexts. Either we
just tried to interpret a string as an object name, and it fails, so
we try looking for a working tree file (i.e. we finished looking at
revs that come earlier on the command line, and the next argument
must be a pathname), or we _know_ that we are looking for a
pathname, and shouldn't even try interpreting the string as an
object name.

For example, with this change, we get:

  $ git log COPYING HEAD:inexistant
  fatal: HEAD:inexistant: no such path in the working tree.
  Use '-- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally.
  $ git log HEAD:inexistant
  fatal: Path 'inexistant' does not exist in 'HEAD'

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-18 15:21:42 -07:00
Ross Lagerwall
658219f1c7 rev-parse --show-prefix: add in trailing newline
Print out a trailing newline when --show-prefix is run with cwd
at the top level of the tree which results in an empty prefix.
Behavior is now like --show-cdup.

Fixes an expected failure in t1501.

Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-10 09:25:35 -07:00
Fredrik Gustafsson
abc06822af rev-parse: add option --resolve-git-dir <path>
Check if <path> is a valid git-dir or a valid git-file that points
to a valid git-dir.

We want tests to be independent from the fact that a git-dir may
be a git-file. Thus we changed tests to use this feature.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-16 11:04:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cc243c3ceb show: --ignore-missing
Instead of barfing, simply ignore bad object names seen in the
input. This is useful when reading from "git notes list" output
that may refer to objects that have already been garbage collected.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-19 10:55:54 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
ad5aeeded3 revision.c: introduce --min-parents and --max-parents options
Introduce --min-parents and --max-parents options which limit the
revisions to those commits which have at least (or at most) that many
commits, where negative arguments for --max-parents= denote infinity
(i.e. no upper limit).

In particular:

  --max-parents=1 is the same as --no-merges;
  --min-parents=2 is the same as --merges;
  --max-parents=0 shows only roots; and
  --min-parents=3 shows only octopus merges

Using --min-parents=n and --max-parents=m with n>m gives you what you ask
for (i.e. nothing) for obvious reasons, just like when you give --merges
(show only merge commits) and --no-merges (show only non-merge commits) at
the same time.

Also, introduce --no-min-parents and --no-max-parents to do the obvious
thing for convenience.

We compute the number of parents only when we limit by that, so there
is no performance impact when there are no limiters.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-23 10:16:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fcd91f8de2 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  backmerge a few more fixes to 1.7.1.X series
  rev-parse: fix --parse-opt --keep-dashdash --stop-at-non-option
  fix git branch -m in presence of cross devices

Conflicts:
	RelNotes
	builtin/rev-parse.c
2010-07-07 11:18:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
878bd809d7 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.4' into maint
* maint-1.6.4:
  rev-parse: fix --parse-opt --keep-dashdash --stop-at-non-option
2010-07-07 11:13:40 -07:00
Thomas Rast
47e9cd28f8 parseopt: wrap rev-parse --parseopt usage for eval consumption
9c7304e (print the usage string on stdout instead of stderr,
2010-05-17) broke rev-parse --parseopt: when run with -h, the usage
notice on stdout ended up in the shell eval.

Wrap the usage in a cat <<\EOF ... EOF block when printing to stdout.
I do not expect any usage lines to ever start with EOF so this
shouldn't be an undue burden.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-13 09:38:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2e0e8b68e3 Merge branch 'lt/deepen-builtin-source'
* lt/deepen-builtin-source:
  Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory

Conflicts:
	Makefile
2010-03-10 15:25:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
81b50f3ce4 Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory
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>
2010-02-22 14:29:41 -08:00