Re: Error in bash completion

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Denton Liu wrote:
> Hi Harrison,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 09:44:38AM -0600, Harrison McCullough wrote:
> > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> > 
> > 1. Create a Bash function, e.g. `ga() { git add "${@:-.}"; }`
> > 2. Use the `__git_complete` function to add Bash tab completion for your custom
> >    Bash function, e.g. `__git_complete ga git_add`
> > 3. Attempt to tab complete a file path, e.g. `ga my-incomplete-file-path<TAB>`
> > 
> > 
> > What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> > 
> > Bash tab-completes the file path.
> > 
> > 
> > What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
> > 
> > Bash tab-completes the file path but also displays an error:
> > 
> > $ ga fi-bash: [: -lt: unary operator expected
> > le3.txt
> 
> This happened as a result of my changes at e94fb44042
> (git-completion.bash: pass $__git_subcommand_idx from __git_main(),
> 2021-03-24) and 87e629756f (git-completion.bash: rename to
> $__git_cmd_idx, 2021-04-22).
> 
> The tl;dr is that $__git_cmd_idx must be set to the index of the
> git command you're executing (e.g. for `git add`, the index of `add`).
> As a workaround for you, try setting __git_cmd_idx=0 where you define
> ga().
> 
> Now, a question to the wider list: does git-completion.bash have a
> public interface? I've been working off the assumption that any time a
> user uses the internals, it's at their own risk. Is this a valid
> assumption to make?

Traditionally that was a valid assumption, although in reality people
have been using __git_complete for many years.

Since 5a067ba9d0 (completion: add proper public __git_complete,
2020-12-30) __git_complete became officially public, and the internal
one is ___git_complete.

Perhaps we could set __git_cmd_idx in __git_complete, but we would also
need to consider the zsh equivalent of __git_complete, which is compdef.

-- 
Felipe Contreras