On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 5:05 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
> <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Instead of maintaining a separate list of command classification,
>> which often could go out of date, let's centralize the information
>> back in git.
>>
>> While the function in git-completion.bash implies "list porcelain
>> commands", that's not exactly what it does. It gets all commands (aka
>> --list-cmds=main,others) then exclude certain non-porcelain ones. We
>> could almost recreate this list two lists list-mainporcelain and
>> others. The non-porcelain-but-included-anyway is added by the third
>> category list-complete.
>>
>> list-complete does not recreate exactly the command list before this
>> patch though. The following commands are not part of neither
>> list-mainporcelain nor list-complete and as a result no longer
>> completes:
>>
>> - annotate obsolete, discouraged to use
>> - difftool-helper not an end user command
>> - filter-branch not often used
>> - get-tar-commit-id not often used
>> - imap-send not often used
>> - interpreter-trailers not for interactive use
>> - lost-found obsolete
>> - p4 too short and probably not often used (*)
>> - peek-remote deprecated
>> - svn same category as p4 (*)
>> - tar-tree obsolete
>> - verify-commit not often used
>
> 'git name-rev' is plumbing as well.
So? name-rev remains completable like before and is not mentioned in
the above list. Am I missing something?
> I think this commit should be split into two:
>
> - first do the unequivocally beneficial thing and get rid of the
> long, hard-coded command list in __git_list_porcelain_commands(),
> while keeping its output unchanged,
>
> - then do the arguable thing and change the list of commands.
I will. Though the first commit still changes the output slightly
because there are three commands not in command-list.txt. To keep the
output unchanged, I would need to add them back in command-list.txt
first (and find the right group for them) only to remove those lines
later (two of them deprecated, the other does not even have a man
page). It's not worth the effort.
>> {
>> local i IFS=" "$'\n'
>> - for i in $(__git_commands)
>> + for i in $(__git_commands $1)
>> do
>> case $i in
>> *--*) : helper pattern;;
>
> Is this loop to exclude helper commands with doubledash in their name
> still necessary?
It is needed for __git_list_all_commands() because that one still
essentially grabs "git help -a", which includes command--helpers.
--
Duy
