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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> |
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Contributed Software Although these pieces are available as part of the official git source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them, and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved faster. I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners" have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer). This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the drill. I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused and inactive ones from time to time. If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves there are some general interests (it does not have to be a list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport), submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your stuff there. -jc