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* No tab completion for git version?
@ 2019-11-22 10:19 ryenus
  2019-11-27 17:42 ` Jeff King
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: ryenus @ 2019-11-22 10:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Tab completion works for `git --version`, but not `git version`.
Of course, it would work with a custom executable script git-version on PATH.

Interestingly, it works even if the git-version script is an empty file.

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* Re: No tab completion for git version?
  2019-11-22 10:19 No tab completion for git version? ryenus
@ 2019-11-27 17:42 ` Jeff King
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jeff King @ 2019-11-27 17:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ryenus; +Cc: Git mailing list

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 06:19:27PM +0800, ryenus wrote:

> Tab completion works for `git --version`, but not `git version`.
> Of course, it would work with a custom executable script git-version on PATH.
> 
> Interestingly, it works even if the git-version script is an empty file.

It's because git-version isn't mentioned in "git help -a", from which we
generate the completion list. That comes from command-list.h, which in
turn is generated from command-list.txt, which doesn't mention
git-version as a command. And we can't add it there until it has a
manpage (since we pull the oneline description from the synopsis).

It might not be a bad thing to have a manpage. For example, the
--build-options is undocumented.

cmd_version() is also weirdly in help.c, not builtin/help.c, which might
be worth fixing.

-Peff

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