[PATCH v5 00/10] Keep all info in command-list.txt in git binary

[Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy]

I think v5 is getting close to what I wanted to achieve from the RFC
version (I skip v4 since I sent out v4/wip and another v4 may confuse
people).

Interdiff is too large to be helpful, but the summary of changes
compared to v3 is:

- common-cmds.h is renamed to command-list.h
- the common group description is moved from command-list.txt to
  help.c to simplify command-list.txt format
- generate-cmds.sh supports multiple categories per command, a new one
  "complete" is added to aid git-completion.bash
- multiple --list-cmds options is replaced with
  --list-cmds=[,...]. This allows easier group
  customization in git-completion.bash (not happens yet)
- __git_list_all_commands() and __git_list_porcelain_commands() for
  backward compatibility
- "git help " completion also makes use of guide list in
  command-list.txt
- better tests from Ramsay

There is one sticky point yet about the guides. I'll pull Phillip in
and explain more in the relevant patch.

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (10):
  generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
  generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
  help: use command-list.h for common command list
  Remove common-cmds.h
  git.c: convert --list-*builtins to --list-cmds=*
  completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
  git: support --list-cmds=list-
  help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
  help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
  completion: let git provide the completable command list

 .gitignore |   2 +-
 Documentation/git-help.txt |   4 +-
 Documentation/gitattributes.txt|   2 +-
 Documentation/gitmodules.txt   |   2 +-
 Documentation/gitrevisions.txt |   2 +-
 Makefile   |  16 +-
 builtin/help.c |  39 +
 command-list.txt   |  67 
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 134 +---
 generate-cmdlist.sh| 126 ++-
 git.c  |  38 -
 help.c | 209 +
 help.h |   5 +
 t/t0012-help.sh|  26 ++-
 t/t9902-completion.sh  |   5 +-
 15 files changed, 426 insertions(+), 251 deletions(-)

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Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] Keep all info in command-list.txt in git binary

[Duy Nguyen]

This is probably scope creep for this series, but do you guys think we
should do the same for config variables completion? We currently
maintain a giant list at the end of _git_config(). Extracting the list
from Documentation/config.txt to keep it in a C array does not look
super hard. There will be some special handling for advice.* or
color but overall I still think it's a net gain.

Listing all recognizable config variables from "git config" (or "git
help") would be lovely, but I don't think it helps unless we could
print a short summary line each variable, but this info is not
available anywhere.
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Duy