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From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
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Subject: Re: How to complete a file name?
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:38:34PM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> is it possible to force the completion of a file name? For example, the
> completion for git aliases doesn't work. git ci -- fi<TAB> doesn't
> complete file, while git ci is an (git) alias for git commit. Or try to
> complete eval "echo /bi<TAB>. Is it possible to say “complete this as a
> file name maybe with the short syntax /u/s/d/z”?

Quite a few things about git completion could be improved, including
using aliases and the special and bizarre meaning of "--".