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From: Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-completion.bash: add support for path completion
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:02:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D23960.4070108@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzk1clb3n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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Il 17/12/2012 20:42, Junio C Hamano ha scritto:
> [...]
>>> I am not sure how you would handle the last parameter to "git mv",
>>> though.  That is by definition a path that does not exist,
>>> i.e. cannot be completed.
>>
>> Right, the code should be changed.
>> No completion should be done for the second parameter.
> 
> I deliberately wrote "the last" not "the second", as you can do
> 
> 	$ mkdir X
>         $ git mv COPYING README X/.
> 
> You do need to expand the second parameter to README when the user
> types
> 
> 	git mv COPYING REAMDE X
> 
> then goes back with \C-b to "M", types \C-d three times to remove
> "MDE", and then finally says <TAB>, to result in
> 
> 	git mv COPYING README X
> 

Assuming X is a new untracked directory, do you think it is an usability
problem if an user try to do:

	git mv COPYING README <TAB>

and X does not appear in the completion list?

As far as I know, the solution is to only support custom expansion the
first parameter, unless the user will do something like:

	git mv COPYING README -- <TAB>


Regards  Manlio

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-19 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-16 21:24 [PATCH] git-completion.bash: add support for path completion Manlio Perillo
2012-12-17  4:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 11:17   ` Manlio Perillo
2012-12-17 19:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-18 16:25       ` Manlio Perillo
2012-12-19 22:02       ` Manlio Perillo [this message]
2012-12-19 22:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-19 23:50           ` Manlio Perillo

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