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>
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>
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
"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
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
Work around zsh segfaulting when loading git-completion.zsh
* sg/completion-zsh-workaround:
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>
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>
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
"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>
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
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>
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>
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>
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>
* 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
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>
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
"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()
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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
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
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()
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>
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>
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>
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>
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
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Unless the user has 'core.quotePath=false' somewhere in the
configuration, both 'git ls-files' and 'git diff-index' will by
default quote any pathnames that contain bytes with values higher than
0x80, and escape those bytes as '\nnn' octal values. This prevents
completing paths when the current path component to be completed
contains any non-ASCII, most notably UTF-8, characters, because none
of the listed quoted paths will match the current word on the command
line.
Set 'core.quotePath=false' for those 'git ls-files' and 'git
diff-index' invocations, so they won't consider bytes higher than 0x80
as "unusual", and won't quote pathnames containing such characters.
Note that pathnames containing backslash, double quote, or control
characters will still be quoted; a later patch in this series will
deal with those.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Once upon a time 'git -C "" cmd' errored out with "Cannot change to
'': No such file or directory", therefore the completion script took
extra steps to run 'git -C "." cmd' instead; see fca416a41e
(completion: use "git -C $there" instead of (cd $there && git ...),
2014-10-09).
Those extra steps are not needed since 6a536e2076 (git: treat "git -C
'<path>'" as a no-op when <path> is empty, 2015-03-06), so remove
them.
While at it, also simplify how the trailing '/' is appended to the
variable holding the prefix path components.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's much easier to read, understand and modify the functions related
to git-aware path completion when they are right next to each other.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The mechanism to use parse-options API to automate the command line
completion continues to get extended and polished.
* nd/parseopt-completion-more:
completion: use __gitcomp_builtin in _git_cherry
completion: use __gitcomp_builtin in _git_ls_tree
completion: delete option-only completion commands
completion: add --option completion for most builtin commands
completion: factor out _git_xxx calling code
completion: mention the oldest version we need to support
git.c: add hidden option --list-parseopt-builtins
git.c: move cmd_struct declaration up
From the output of ls-files, we remove all but the leftmost path
component and then we eliminate duplicates. We do this in a while loop,
which is a performance bottleneck when the number of iterations is large
(e.g. for 60000 files in linux.git).
$ COMP_WORDS=(git status -- ar) COMP_CWORD=3; time _git
real 0m11.876s
user 0m4.685s
sys 0m6.808s
Replacing the loop with the cut command improves performance
significantly:
$ COMP_WORDS=(git status -- ar) COMP_CWORD=3; time _git
real 0m1.372s
user 0m0.263s
sys 0m0.167s
The measurements were done with Msys2 bash, which is used by Git for
Windows.
When filtering the ls-files output we take care not to touch absolute
paths. This is redundant, because ls-files will never output absolute
paths. Remove the unnecessary operations.
The issue was reported here:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1533
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
