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authorLibravatar Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>2020-04-01 04:17:46 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-04-01 11:11:31 -0700
commitc0af173a136785b3cfad4bd414b2fb10a130760a (patch)
treefff2017a6bdc8cc2c0ab4bd8fe26f783d2ed57b9 /Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
parentFix error-prone fill_directory() API; make it only return matches (diff)
downloadtgif-c0af173a136785b3cfad4bd414b2fb10a130760a.tar.xz
completion: fix 'git add' on paths under an untracked directory
As reported on the git mailing list, since git-2.25, git add untracked-dir/ has been tab completing to git add untracked-dir/./ The cause for this was that with commit b9670c1f5e (dir: fix checks on common prefix directory, 2019-12-19), git ls-files -o --directory untracked-dir/ (or the equivalent `git -C untracked-dir ls-files -o --directory`) began reporting untracked-dir/ instead of listing paths underneath that directory. It may also be worth noting that the real command in question was git -C untracked-dir ls-files -o --directory '*' which is equivalent to git ls-files -o --directory 'untracked-dir/*' which behaves the same for the purposes of this issue (the '*' can match the empty string), but becomes relevant for the proposed fix. At first, based on the report, I decided to try to view this as a regression and tried to find a way to recover the old behavior without breaking other stuff, or at least breaking as little as possible. However, in the end, I couldn't figure out a way to do it that wouldn't just cause lots more problems than it solved. The old behavior was a bug: * Although older git would avoid cleaning anything with `git clean -f .git`, it would wipe out everything under that direcotry with `git clean -f .git/`. Despite the difference in command used, this is relevant because the exact same change that fixed clean changed the behavior of ls-files. * Older git would report different results based solely on presence or absence of a trailing slash for $SUBDIR in the command `git ls-files -o --directory $SUBDIR`. * Older git violated the documented behavior of not recursing into directories that matched the pathspec when --directory was specified. * And, after all, commit b9670c1f5e (dir: fix checks on common prefix directory, 2019-12-19) didn't overlook this issue; it explicitly stated that the behavior of the command was being changed to bring it inline with the docs. (Also, if it helps, despite that commit being merged during the 2.25 series, this bug was not reported during the 2.25 cycle, nor even during most of the 2.26 cycle -- it was reported a day before 2.26 was released. So the impact of the change is at least somewhat small.) Instead of relying on a bug of ls-files in reporting the wrong content, change the invocation of ls-files used by git-completion to make it grab paths one depth deeper. Do this by changing '$DIR/*' (match $DIR/ plus 0 or more characters) into '$DIR/?*' (match $DIR/ plus 1 or more characters). Note that the '?' character should not be added when trying to complete a filename (e.g. 'git ls-files -o --directory "merge.c?*"' would not correctly return "merge.c" when such a file exists), so we have to make sure to add the '?' character only in cases where the path specified so far is a directory. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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