git diff autocomplete

git diff autocomplete

[Dhaval Patel]

How to reproduce

git init
touch abc.txt
touch abd.txt
git add a*
git commit -m 'first commit'
echo 'hello' > abc.txt
git add a[PRESS TAB]
(This will autocomplete 'git add abc.txt')
git diff a[PRESS TAB]
(This will not give 'git diff abc.txt')

Suggested feature -

when I press tab, git diff should autocomplete just like git add.

Re: git diff autocomplete

[Santiago Torres Arias]

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On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 08:14:15AM +0530, Dhaval Patel wrote:
> How to reproduce
> 
> [snip]
> Suggested feature -
> 
> when I press tab, git diff should autocomplete just like git add.

I think this is somewhat harder of a usecase, as git add generally takes
paths and diff can compare revisions *and* paths. I see that if I do

    git diff -- [TAB]

I get all the paths as an autocomplete option, which I think is desired
behavior.

Thanks,
-Santiago.

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git diff autocomplete

[Dhaval Patel]

If it is only about files and revisions both being handled by git
diff, would it not ne possible to do something like this?

For files

git diff -f a[PRESS TAB]

For revisions

git diff -r a[PRESS TAB]

Some sort of flag which says we are handling files or revisions.

Re: git diff autocomplete

[Andreas Schwab]

On Aug 26 2019, Dhaval Patel <drdhaval2785@gmail.com> wrote:

> If it is only about files and revisions both being handled by git
> diff, would it not ne possible to do something like this?
>
> For files
>
> git diff -f a[PRESS TAB]
>
> For revisions
>
> git diff -r a[PRESS TAB]
>
> Some sort of flag which says we are handling files or revisions.

That already exists, it is spelt `--'.

Andreas.

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