On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 5:51 AM Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > > > __gitcomp_builtin() has the main completion list provided by > > > > git xxx --git-completion-helper > > > > but the caller can also add extra options that is not provided by > > --git-completion-helper. The only call site that does this is "git > > difftool" completion. > > > > This support is broken by b221b5ab9b (completion: collapse extra > > --no-.. options - 2018-06-06), which adds a special value "--" to mark > > that the rest of the options can be hidden by default. The commit > > forgets the fact that extra options are appended after > > "$(git xxx --git-completion-helper)", i.e. after this "--", and will > > be incorrectly hidden as well. > > > > Prepend the extra options before "$(git xxx --git-completion-helper)" > > to avoid this. > > Thanks for a clear analysis. How did you find it? Got annoyed that > completion of difftool got broken, or discovered while trying to > apply the same trick as difftool completion uses to another one and > seeing that the technique does not work?
I was fixing format-patch completion and was surprised it did not work as expected. Never really used difftool myself :P I only found out about it when I asked myself "why wasn't this breakage found earlier?" -- Duy
