Re: [PATCH] completion: expand "push --delete <remote> <ref>" for refs on that <remote>

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> Change the completion of "push --delete <remote> <ref>" to complete
> refs on that <remote>, not all refs. Before this e.g. cloning git.git
> and doing "git push --delete origin p<TAB>" will complete nothing,
> whereas origin/p<TAB> will uselessly complete origin/pu.
>
> Now p<TAB> will complete as "pu". The completion of giving --delete
> later, e.g. "git push origin --delete p<TAB>" remains unchanged, this
> is a bug, but is a general existing limitation of the bash completion,
> and not how git-push is documented, so I'm not fixing that case.
>
> I looked over t9902-completion.sh but couldn't quickly find out how to
> add a test for this, but all the existing tests pass, and all my
> manual testing of "git push --delete <remote> ..." does the right
> thing now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> ---

This looks like a sensible thing to want to add.  Perhaps somebody
more familiar with the completion tests can help with t/ and also
give us general comments.  Until then, let me queue it as is on
'pu'.

Thanks.

>  contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> index 1150164d5c..2e5b3ed776 100644
> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> @@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ __git_complete_revlist ()
>  __git_complete_remote_or_refspec ()
>  {
>  	local cur_="$cur" cmd="${words[1]}"
> -	local i c=2 remote="" pfx="" lhs=1 no_complete_refspec=0
> +	local i c=2 remote="" pfx="" lhs=1 no_complete_refspec=0 delete=0
>  	if [ "$cmd" = "remote" ]; then
>  		((c++))
>  	fi
> @@ -709,6 +709,7 @@ __git_complete_remote_or_refspec ()
>  		i="${words[c]}"
>  		case "$i" in
>  		--mirror) [ "$cmd" = "push" ] && no_complete_refspec=1 ;;
> +		--delete) delete=1 ;;
>  		--all)
>  			case "$cmd" in
>  			push) no_complete_refspec=1 ;;
> @@ -761,7 +762,9 @@ __git_complete_remote_or_refspec ()
>  		fi
>  		;;
>  	push)
> -		if [ $lhs = 1 ]; then
> +		if [ $delete = 1 ]; then
> +			__git_complete_refs --remote="$remote" --pfx="$pfx" --cur="$cur_"
> +		elif [ $lhs = 1 ]; then
>  			__git_complete_refs --pfx="$pfx" --cur="$cur_"
>  		else
>  			__git_complete_refs --remote="$remote" --pfx="$pfx" --cur="$cur_"