Re: PATCH: Fix a bug in _git's clone completion

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>]

2008/8/28 Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>:
> There was a backslash missing at a line end, which screwed up things.
>
> Also, I don't understand the completion after 'git clone --bare <tab>'.
> It does not give me *any* completions, while I would expect the same
> completions as without the --bare option.
>
> If I do 'git clone --bare -<tab>', I only get a small subset of the
> remaining options. I don't know what is happening here.

No idea here...

> Finally, I do not understand why the end of the _arguments call was
> done like this:
>
> [snip]
>    ':repository:__git_any_repositories' \-
>    '*:directory:_directories' && ret=0-
> [snap]
>
> ...and not just: '*:repository:__git_any_repositories' && ret 0
>
> If someone can explain, please do ahead. :)

This is because
SYNOPSIS
           git clone ... <repository> [<directory>]

Ie, you can give an optional argument where to clone to. The * is bogus
though.


diff --git a/Completion/Unix/Command/_git b/Completion/Unix/Command/_git
index d6cda20..4a50b39 100644
--- a/Completion/Unix/Command/_git
+++ b/Completion/Unix/Command/_git
@@ -1611,14 +1611,14 @@ _git-clean () {
     '*:file:_files' && ret=0
 }

-# TODO: The --no-checkout is undocumented.
 (( $+functions[_git-clone] )) ||
 _git-clone () {

-  _arguments \
+  _arguments -S \
     '--bare[make a bare GIT repository]' \
+    '--mirror[clone refs into refs/* instead of refs/remotes/origin/*]' \
     '(-l --local)'{-l,--local}'[perform a local cloning of a repository]' \
-    '(-s --shared)'{-s,--shared}'[share the objects with the source
repository (warning: see man page)]' \
+    '(-s --shared)'{-s,--shared}'[share the objects with the source
repository (warning: see man page)]' \
     '--reference[reference repository]:repository:_directories' \
     '(-q --quiet)'{-q,--quiet}'[operate quietly]' \
     '(-n --no-checkout)'{-n,--no-checkout}'[do not checkout HEAD
after clone is complete]' \
@@ -1628,7 +1628,7 @@ _git-clone () {
     $template_arg \
     '--depth[create a shallow clone, given number of revisions deep]:
:_guard "[[\:digit\:]]##" depth' \
     ':repository:__git_any_repositories' \
-    '*:directory:_directories' && ret=0
+    ':directory:_directories' && ret=0
 }

 (( $+functions[_git-commit] )) ||

-- 
Mikael Magnusson