Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2017, #02; Mon, 6)

["SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>]

> * sg/completion-refs-speedup (2017-02-06) 13 commits
>  - squash! completion: fill COMPREPLY directly when completing refs
>  - completion: fill COMPREPLY directly when completing refs
>  - completion: list only matching symbolic and pseudorefs when completing refs
>  - completion: let 'for-each-ref' sort remote branches for 'checkout' DWIMery
>  - completion: let 'for-each-ref' filter remote branches for 'checkout' DWIMery
>  - completion: let 'for-each-ref' strip the remote name from remote branches
>  - completion: let 'for-each-ref' and 'ls-remote' filter matching refs
>  - completion: don't disambiguate short refs
>  - completion: don't disambiguate tags and branches
>  - completion: support excluding full refs
>  - completion: support completing full refs after '--option=refs/<TAB>'
>  - completion: wrap __git_refs() for better option parsing
>  - completion: remove redundant __gitcomp_nl() options from _git_commit()
>  (this branch uses sg/completion.)
>
>  Will hold.
>  This seems to break 9902 when merged to 'pu'.

All failing tests fail with the same error:

  fatal: unrecognized %(refname:strip=2) argument: strip=2

That's because of this topic:

> * kn/ref-filter-branch-list (2017-01-31) 20 commits
>   (merged to 'next' on 2017-01-31 at e7592a5461)
>  + branch: implement '--format' option
>  + branch: use ref-filter printing APIs
>  + branch, tag: use porcelain output
>  + ref-filter: allow porcelain to translate messages in the output
>  + ref-filter: add an 'rstrip=<N>' option to atoms which deal with refnames
>  + ref-filter: modify the 'lstrip=<N>' option to work with negative '<N>'
>  + ref-filter: Do not abruptly die when using the 'lstrip=<N>' option
>  + ref-filter: rename the 'strip' option to 'lstrip'

And in particular this commit, which, well, does what it's subject
says it's doing, thus breaking backwards compatibility.


>  + ref-filter: make remote_ref_atom_parser() use refname_atom_parser_internal()
>  + ref-filter: introduce refname_atom_parser()
>  + ref-filter: introduce refname_atom_parser_internal()
>  + ref-filter: make "%(symref)" atom work with the ':short' modifier
>  + ref-filter: add support for %(upstream:track,nobracket)
>  + ref-filter: make %(upstream:track) prints "[gone]" for invalid upstreams
>  + ref-filter: introduce format_ref_array_item()
>  + ref-filter: move get_head_description() from branch.c
>  + ref-filter: modify "%(objectname:short)" to take length
>  + ref-filter: implement %(if:equals=<string>) and %(if:notequals=<string>)
>  + ref-filter: include reference to 'used_atom' within 'atom_value'
>  + ref-filter: implement %(if), %(then), and %(else) atoms
>
>  The code to list branches in "git branch" has been consolidated
>  with the more generic ref-filter API.
>
>  Will cook in 'next'.