On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:55 AM, SZEDER Gábor <sze...@ira.uka.de> wrote: > > Quoting Robert Dailey <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com>: > >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 6:29 AM, SZEDER Gábor <sze...@ira.uka.de> wrote: >>> >>> Quoting Robert Dailey <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> I do the following: >>>> >>>> $ git push origin :topic >>>> >>>> If I stop halfway through typing 'topic' and hit TAB, auto-completion >>>> does not work if I do not have a local branch by that name (sometimes >>>> I delete my local branch first, then I push to delete it remotely). I >>>> thought that git completion code was supposed to use ls-remote to auto >>>> complete refs used in push operations. Is this supposed to work? >>> >>> >>> It's intentional. Running 'git ls-remote' with a far away remote can >>> take ages, so instead we grab the refs on the remote from the locally >>> stored refs under 'refs/remotes/<remote>/'. >>> >>> See e832f5c096 (completion: avoid ls-remote in certain scenarios, >>> 2013-05-28). The commit message mentions that you can "force" >>> completion of remote refs via 'git ls-remote' by starting with the full >>> refname, i.e. 'refs/<TAB>', however, that seems to work only on the >>> left hand side of the colon in the push refspec. >>> >>> Gábor >>> >> >> If that's indeed the case, then completion should work. I have a >> 'refs/remotes/origin/topic'. Why will auto complete not work even >> though this exists? Do multiple remotes cause issues (in theory there >> is no reason why it should cause problems, since it should know I'm >> auto-completing a ref on 'origin')? > > > The number of remotes doesn't matter. > What matters is which side of the colon the ref to be completed is. > > You can complete > > git push origin refs/<TAB> > > and > > git fetch origin refs/<TAB> > > will even list you refs freshly queried via 'git ls-remote'. > However, > > git push origin :refs/<TAB> > git push origin branch:refs/<TAB> > > don't work, because there are no refs starting with the prefix ':refs/' or > 'branch:refs/'. > > Gábor >
Interesting. So is it just a glaring bug that the git completion script isn't ignoring the : and anything to the left of it? Or is this beyond the control of the script? -- 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
