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2013-12-27Merge branch 'tg/diff-no-index-refactor'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+53
"git diff ../else/where/A ../else/where/B" when ../else/where is clearly outside the repository, and "git diff --no-index A B", do not have to look at the index at all, but we used to read the index unconditionally. * tg/diff-no-index-refactor: diff: avoid some nesting diff: add test for --no-index executed outside repo diff: don't read index when --no-index is given diff: move no-index detection to builtin/diff.c
2013-12-16diff: avoid some nestingLibravatar Thomas Gummerer1-18/+17
Avoid some nesting in builtin/diff.c, to make the code easier to read. There are no functional changes. Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-12diff: don't read index when --no-index is givenLibravatar Thomas Gummerer1-2/+5
git diff --no-index ... currently reads the index, during setup, when calling gitmodules_config(). This results in worse performance when the index is not actually needed. This patch avoids calling gitmodules_config() when the --no-index option is given. The times for executing "git diff --no-index" in the WebKit repository are improved as follows: Test HEAD~3 HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4001.1: diff --no-index 0.24(0.15+0.09) 0.01(0.00+0.00) -95.8% An additional improvement of this patch is that "git diff --no-index" no longer breaks when the index file is corrupt, which makes it possible to use it for investigating the broken repository. To improve the possible usage as investigation tool for broken repositories, setup_git_directory_gently() is also not called when the --no-index option is given. Also add a test to guard against future breakages, and a performance test to show the improvements. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-12diff: move no-index detection to builtin/diff.cLibravatar Thomas Gummerer1-3/+49
Currently the --no-index option is parsed in diff_no_index(). Move the detection if a no-index diff should be executed to builtin/diff.c, where we can use it for executing diff_no_index() conditionally. This will also allow us to execute other operations conditionally, which will be done in the next patch. There are no functional changes. Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-06Merge branch 'nd/magic-pathspec'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+7
"git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" were rejected unnecessarily. This needs to be merged to 'maint' later. * nd/magic-pathspec: diff: restrict pathspec limitations to diff b/f case only
2013-11-20diff: restrict pathspec limitations to diff b/f case onlyLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-10/+7
builtin_diff_b_f() needs a path, not pathspec. Other modes in diff can deal with pathspec just fine. But because of the current GUARD_PATHSPEC() location, other modes also reject :(glob) and :(icase). Move GUARD_PATHSPEC(), and the "path" assignment statement, which is the reason of this GUARD_PATHSPEC(), inside builtin_diff_b_f(). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31diff: trivial style fixLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15pathspec: support :(literal) syntax for noglob pathspecLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15convert read_cache_preload() to take struct pathspecLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15guard against new pathspec magic in pathspec matching codeLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+2
GUARD_PATHSPEC() marks pathspec-sensitive code, basically all those that touch anything in 'struct pathspec' except fields "nr" and "original". GUARD_PATHSPEC() is not supposed to fail. It's mainly to help the designers catch unsupported codepaths. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-28cmd_diff(): make it obvious which cases are exclusive of each otherLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-5/+4
At first glance the OBJ_COMMIT, OBJ_TREE, and OBJ_BLOB cases look like they might be mutually exclusive. But the OBJ_COMMIT case doesn't end the loop iteration with "continue" like the other two cases, but rather falls through. So use if...else if...else construct to make it more obvious that only the last two cases are mutually exclusive. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-28cmd_diff(): rename local variable "list" -> "entry"Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-4/+4
It's not a list, it's an array entry. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-28cmd_diff(): use an object_array for holding treesLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-19/+18
Change cmd_diff() to use a (struct object_array) for holding the trees that it accumulates, rather than rolling its own equivalent. Incidentally, this change removes a hard-coded limit of 100 trees in combined diff, not that it matters in practice. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-28builtin_diff_tree(): make it obvious that function wants two entriesLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-9/+10
Instead of accepting an array and using exactly two elements from the array, take two single (struct object_array_entry *) arguments. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-20Merge branch 'kb/preload-index-more'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+8
Use preloadindex in more places, which has a nice speedup on systems with slow stat calls (and even on Linux). * kb/preload-index-more: update-index/diff-index: use core.preloadindex to improve performance
2012-11-02update-index/diff-index: use core.preloadindex to improve performanceLibravatar Karsten Blees1-4/+8
'update-index --refresh' and 'diff-index' (without --cached) don't honor the core.preloadindex setting yet. Porcelain commands using these (such as git [svn] rebase) suffer from this, especially on Windows. Use read_cache_preload to improve performance. Additionally, in builtin/diff.c, don't preload index status if we don't access the working copy (--cached). Results with msysgit on WebKit repo (2GB in 200k files): | update-index | diff-index | rebase ----------------+--------------+------------+--------- msysgit-v1.8.0 | 9.157s | 10.536s | 42.791s + preloadindex | 9.157s | 10.536s | 28.725s + this patch | 2.329s | 2.752s | 15.152s + fscache [1] | 0.731s | 1.171s | 8.877s [1] https://github.com/kblees/git/tree/kb/fscache-v3 Thanks-to: Albert Krawczyk <pro-logic@optusnet.com.au> Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-29Move setup_diff_pager to libgit.aLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-16/+0
This is used by diff-no-index.c, part of libgit.a while it stays in builtin/diff.c. Move it to diff.c so that we won't get undefined reference if a program that uses libgit.a happens to pull it in. While at it, move check_pager from git.c to pager.c. It makes more sense there and pager.c is also part of libgit.a Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-09-11Merge branch 'tr/void-diff-setup-done' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
* tr/void-diff-setup-done: diff_setup_done(): return void
2012-09-10Merge branch 'jk/maint-null-in-trees' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
"git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have name 0{40} recorded in a tree. * jk/maint-null-in-trees: fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries do not write null sha1s to on-disk index diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
2012-08-27Merge branch 'jk/maint-null-in-trees'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
We do not want a link to 0{40} object stored anywhere in our objects. * jk/maint-null-in-trees: fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries do not write null sha1s to on-disk index diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
2012-08-22Merge branch 'tr/void-diff-setup-done'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
Remove unnecessary code. * tr/void-diff-setup-done: diff_setup_done(): return void
2012-08-03diff_setup_done(): return voidLibravatar Thomas Rast1-2/+1
diff_setup_done() has historically returned an error code, but lost the last nonzero return in 943d5b7 (allow diff.renamelimit to be set regardless of -M/-C, 2006-08-09). The callers were in a pretty confused state: some actually checked for the return code, and some did not. Let it return void, and patch all callers to take this into account. This conveniently also gets rid of a handful of different(!) error messages that could never be triggered anyway. Note that the function can still die(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-29diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel valueLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+6
The diff code represents paths using the diff_filespec struct. This struct has a sha1 to represent the sha1 of the content at that path, as well as a sha1_valid member which indicates whether its sha1 field is actually useful. If sha1_valid is not true, then the filespec represents a working tree file (e.g., for the no-index case, or for when the index is not up-to-date). The diff_filespec is only used internally, though. At the interfaces to the diff subsystem, callers feed the sha1 directly, and we create a diff_filespec from it. It's at that point that we look at the sha1 and decide whether it is valid or not; callers may pass the null sha1 as a sentinel value to indicate that it is not. We should not typically see the null sha1 coming from any other source (e.g., in the index itself, or from a tree). However, a corrupt tree might have a null sha1, which would cause "diff --patch" to accidentally diff the working tree version of a file instead of treating it as a blob. This patch extends the edges of the diff interface to accept a "sha1_valid" flag whenever we accept a sha1, and to use that flag when creating a filespec. In some cases, this means passing the flag through several layers, making the code change larger than would be desirable. One alternative would be to simply die() upon seeing corrupted trees with null sha1s. However, this fix more directly addresses the problem (while bogus sha1s in a tree are probably a bad thing, it is really the sentinel confusion sending us down the wrong code path that is what makes it devastating). And it means that git is more capable of examining and debugging these corrupted trees. For example, you can still "diff --raw" such a tree to find out when the bogus entry was introduced; you just cannot do a "--patch" diff (just as you could not with any other corrupted tree, as we do not have any content to diff). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-15fix pager.diff with diff --no-indexLibravatar Jeff King1-7/+17
git-diff does not rely on the git wrapper to setup its pager; instead, it sets it up on its own after seeing whether --quiet or --exit-code has been specified. After diff_no_index was split off from cmd_diff, commit b3fde6c (git diff --no-index: default to page like other diff frontends, 2008-05-26) duplicated the one-liner from cmd_diff to turn on the pager. Later, commit 8f0359f (Allow pager of diff command be enabled/disabled, 2008-07-21) taught the the version in cmd_diff to respect the pager.diff config, but the version in diff_no_index was left behind. This meant that git -c pager.diff=0 diff a b would not use a pager, but git -c pager.diff=0 diff --no-index a b would. Let's fix it by factoring out a common function. While we're there, let's update the antiquated comment, which claims that the pager interferes with propagating the exit code; this has not been the case since ea27a18 (spawn pager via run_command interface, 2008-07-22). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-23drop casts from users EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BINLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
This macro already evaluates to the correct type, as it casts the string literal to "unsigned char *" itself (and callers who want the literal can use the _LITERAL form). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01diff --stat: add config option to limit graph widthLibravatar Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-1/+2
Config option diff.statGraphWidth=<width> is equivalent to --stat-graph-width=<width>, except that the config option is ignored by format-patch. For the graph-width limiting to be usable, it should happen 'automatically' once configured, hence the config option. Nevertheless, graph width limiting only makes sense when used on a wide terminal, so it should not influence the output of format-patch, which adheres to the 80-column standard. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01diff --stat: use the full terminal widthLibravatar Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-0/+3
Default to the real terminal width for diff --stat output, instead of the hard-coded 80 columns. Some projects (especially in Java), have long filename paths, with nested directories or long individual filenames. When files are renamed, the filename part in stat output can be almost useless. If the middle part between { and } is long (because the file was moved to a completely different directory), then most of the path would be truncated. It makes sense to detect and use the full terminal width and display full filenames if possible. The are commands like diff, show, and log, which can adapt the output to the terminal width. There are also commands like format-patch, whose output should be independent of the terminal width. Since it is safer to use the 80-column default, the real terminal width is only used if requested by the calling code by setting diffopts.stat_width=-1. Normally this value is 0, and can be set by the user only to a non-negative value, so -1 is safe to use internally. This patch only changes the diff builtin to use the full terminal width. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-17use struct sha1_array in diff_tree_combined()Libravatar René Scharfe1-6/+6
Maintaining an array of hashes is easier using sha1_array than open-coding it. This patch also fixes a leak of the SHA1 array in diff_tree_combined_merge(). Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-06cast variable in call to free() in builtin/diff.c and submodule.cLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+1
Both of these free() calls are freeing a "const unsigned char (*)[20]" type while free() expects a "void *". This results in the following warning under clang 2.9: builtin/diff.c:185:7: warning: passing 'const unsigned char (*)[20]' to parameter of type 'void *' discards qualifiers free(parent); ^~~~~~ submodule.c:394:7: warning: passing 'const unsigned char (*)[20]' to parameter of type 'void *' discards qualifiers free(parents); ^~~~~~~ This free()-ing without a cast was added by Jim Meyering to builtin/diff.c in v1.7.6-rc3~4 and later by Fredrik Gustafsson in submodule.c in v1.7.7-rc1~25^2. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-19want_color: automatically fallback to color.uiLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+0
All of the "do we want color" flags default to -1 to indicate that we don't have any color configured. This value is handled in one of two ways: 1. In porcelain, we check early on whether the value is still -1 after reading the config, and set it to the value of color.ui (which defaults to 0). 2. In plumbing, it stays untouched as -1, and want_color defaults it to off. This works fine, but means that every porcelain has to check and reassign its color flag. Now that want_color gives us a place to put this check in a single spot, we can do that, simplifying the calling code. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-20plug a few coverity-spotted leaksLibravatar Jim Meyering1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-28Merge branch 'jc/rename-degrade-cc-to-c'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+1
* jc/rename-degrade-cc-to-c: diffcore-rename: fall back to -C when -C -C busts the rename limit diffcore-rename: record filepair for rename src diffcore-rename: refactor "too many candidates" logic builtin/diff.c: remove duplicated call to diff_result_code()
2011-04-01Merge branch 'ab/i18n-st'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+9
* ab/i18n-st: (69 commits) i18n: git-shortlog basic messages i18n: git-revert split up "could not revert/apply" message i18n: git-revert literal "me" messages i18n: git-revert "Your local changes" message i18n: git-revert basic messages i18n: git-notes GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE error message i18n: git-notes basic commands i18n: git-gc "Auto packing the repository" message i18n: git-gc basic messages i18n: git-describe basic messages i18n: git-clean clean.requireForce messages i18n: git-clean basic messages i18n: git-bundle basic messages i18n: git-archive basic messages i18n: git-status "renamed: " message i18n: git-status "Initial commit" message i18n: git-status "Changes to be committed" message i18n: git-status shortstatus messages i18n: git-status "nothing to commit" messages i18n: git-status basic messages ... Conflicts: builtin/branch.c builtin/checkout.c builtin/clone.c builtin/commit.c builtin/grep.c builtin/merge.c builtin/push.c builtin/revert.c t/t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh t/t7607-merge-overwrite.sh
2011-03-26Merge branch 'jc/index-update-if-able'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+1
* jc/index-update-if-able: update $GIT_INDEX_FILE when there are racily clean entries diff/status: refactor opportunistic index update
2011-03-22builtin/diff.c: remove duplicated call to diff_result_code()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+1
The return value from builtin_diff_files() is fed to diff_result_code() by the caller, and all other callees like builtin_diff_index() do not have their own call to diff_result_code(). Remove the duplicated one from builtin_diff_files() and let the caller handle it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-21diff/status: refactor opportunistic index updateLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+1
When we had to refresh the index internally before running diff or status, we opportunistically updated the $GIT_INDEX_FILE so that later invocation of git can use the lstat(2) we already did in this invocation. Make them share a helper function to do so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09i18n: git-diff basic messagesLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-9/+9
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-27Merge branch 'nd/struct-pathspec'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+6
* nd/struct-pathspec: (22 commits) t6004: add pathspec globbing test for log family t7810: overlapping pathspecs and depth limit grep: drop pathspec_matches() in favor of tree_entry_interesting() grep: use writable strbuf from caller for grep_tree() grep: use match_pathspec_depth() for cache/worktree grepping grep: convert to use struct pathspec Convert ce_path_match() to use match_pathspec_depth() Convert ce_path_match() to use struct pathspec struct rev_info: convert prune_data to struct pathspec pathspec: add match_pathspec_depth() tree_entry_interesting(): optimize wildcard matching when base is matched tree_entry_interesting(): support wildcard matching tree_entry_interesting(): fix depth limit with overlapping pathspecs tree_entry_interesting(): support depth limit tree_entry_interesting(): refactor into separate smaller functions diff-tree: convert base+baselen to writable strbuf glossary: define pathspec Move tree_entry_interesting() to tree-walk.c and export it tree_entry_interesting(): remove dependency on struct diff_options Convert struct diff_options to use struct pathspec ...
2011-02-07diff: support --cached on unborn branchesLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+5
"git diff --cached" (without revision) used to mean "git diff --cached HEAD" (i.e. the user was too lazy to type HEAD). This "correctly" failed when there was no commit yet. But was that correctness useful? This patch changes the definition of what particular command means. It is a request to show what _would_ be committed without further "git add". The internal implementation is the same "git diff --cached HEAD" when HEAD exists, but when there is no commit yet, it compares the index with an empty tree object to achieve the desired result. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-03struct rev_info: convert prune_data to struct pathspecLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-8/+4
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-03Convert struct diff_options to use struct pathspecLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-05diff,difftool: Don't use the {0,2} notation in usage stringsLibravatar Štěpán Němec1-1/+1
This was the only occurence of that usage, and square brackets are sufficient and already well-established for that purpose. Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-09Submodules: Use "ignore" settings from .gitmodules too for diff and statusLibravatar Jens Lehmann1-0/+2
The .gitmodules file is parsed for "submodule.<name>.ignore" entries before looking for them in .git/config. Thus settings found in .git/config will override those from .gitmodules, thereby allowing the local developer to ignore settings given by the remote side while also letting upstream set defaults for those users who don't have special needs. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-16Merge branch 'jc/diff-merge-base-multi'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+0
* jc/diff-merge-base-multi: diff A...B: do not limit the syntax too narrowly
2010-07-15Merge branch 'jc/diff-merge-base-multi'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+23
* jc/diff-merge-base-multi: diff A...B: give one possible diff when there are more than one merge-base
2010-02-22Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectoryLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+425
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n) [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab> builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c you get [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type] builtin/ builtin.h [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to] [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type] shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to] [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type] shortlog.c shortlog.o [torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief. NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off around 100 choices or something. So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>