The current completion code doesn't deal properly with items (tags, branches, etc.) that have ${} in them because they get expanded by bash while using compgen.
This patch is a rewrite of Felipe Contreras's 25ae7cf, which attempted to fix the problem by quoting the values we pass to __gitcomp_nl. However, that patch ended up quoting the whole list as a single item, which broke other completions. Instead, we need to split the newline-delimited list into elements and quote each one individually. This is not a complete fix, as the completion result does will still contain metacharacters, so it would need extra quoting to actually be used on a command line. But it's still a step in the right direction, because: 1. The current code's expansion means that things that are broken expansions (e.g., "${foo:bar}") will actually cause the completion function to barf, breaking all completion (even if you weren't going to complete that item). This patch fixes that so you can at least complete "foo" when "${foo:bar}" exists. 2. We don't know yet what the final fix will look like, but this is probably the first step towards it. It handles quoting on the input side of compgen; the next step will likely be handling the quoting on the output side of compgen to yield a usable string for the command line. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net> --- contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 14 +++++++++++++- t/t9902-completion.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index be800e0..b0416ea 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -225,6 +225,18 @@ fi fi fi +# Quotes each element of an IFS-delimited list for shell reuse +__git_quote() +{ + local i + local delim + for i in $1; do + local quoted=${i//\'/\'\\\'\'} + printf "${delim:+$IFS}'%s'" "$quoted" + delim=t + done +} + # Generates completion reply with compgen, appending a space to possible # completion words, if necessary. # It accepts 1 to 4 arguments: @@ -261,7 +273,7 @@ __gitcomp_nl () __gitcomp_nl () { local IFS=$'\n' - COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$1" -- "${3-$cur}")) + COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$(__git_quote "$1")" -- "${3-$cur}")) } __git_heads () diff --git a/t/t9902-completion.sh b/t/t9902-completion.sh index cbd0fb6..da67705 100755 --- a/t/t9902-completion.sh +++ b/t/t9902-completion.sh @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ test_expect_success 'complete tree filename with spaces' ' EOF ' -test_expect_failure 'complete tree filename with metacharacters' ' +test_expect_success 'complete tree filename with metacharacters' ' echo content >"name with \${meta}" && git add . && git commit -m meta && -- 1.7.12.10.g31da6dd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html