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2015-01-14standardize usage info string formatLibravatar Alex Henrie1-1/+1
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt- like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include: - Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters - Putting dashes in multiword parameter names - Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar] - Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...] Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-22Merge branch 'jc/exec-cmd-system-path-leak-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+10
The function sometimes returned a non-freeable memory and some other times returned a piece of memory that must be freed. * jc/exec-cmd-system-path-leak-fix: system_path(): always return free'able memory to the caller
2014-12-22Merge branch 'tb/config-core-filemode-check-on-broken-fs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Some filesystems assign filemodes in a strange way, fooling then automatic "filemode trustability" check done during a new repository creation. * tb/config-core-filemode-check-on-broken-fs: init-db: improve the filemode trustability check
2014-12-05Merge branch 'mh/config-flip-xbit-back-after-checking'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* mh/config-flip-xbit-back-after-checking: create_default_files(): don't set u+x bit on $GIT_DIR/config
2014-11-30system_path(): always return free'able memory to the callerLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+10
The function sometimes returns a newly allocated string and sometimes returns a borrowed string, the latter of which the callers must not free(). The existing callers all assume that the return value belongs to the callee and most of them copy it with strdup() when they want to keep it around. They end up leaking the returned copy when the callee returned a new string because they cannot tell if they should free it. Change the contract between the callers and system_path() to make the returned string owned by the callers; they are responsible for freeing it when done, but they do not have to make their own copy to store it away. Adjust the callers to make sure they do not leak the returned string once they are done, but do not bother freeing it just before dying, exiting or exec'ing other program to avoid unnecessary churn. Reported-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-21init-db: improve the filemode trustability checkLibravatar Torsten Bögershausen1-0/+2
Some file systems do not support the executable bit: a) The user executable bit is always 0, e.g. VFAT mounted with -onoexec b) The user executable bit is always 1, e.g. cifs mounted with -ofile_mode=0755 c) There are system where user executable bit is 1 even if it should be 0 like b), but the file mode can be maintained locally. chmod -x changes the file mode from 0766 to 0666, until the file system is unmounted and remounted and the file mode is 0766 again. This been observed when a Windows machine with NTFS exports a share to Mac OS X via smb or afp. Case a) and b) are handled by the current code. Case c) qualifies as "non trustable executable bit" and core.filemode should be false, but this is currently not done. Detect when ".git/config" has the user executable bit set after creat(".git/config", 0666) and set core.filemode to false. Because the permission bits on the file is whatever the end user already had when we are asked to reinitialise an existing repository, and do not give any information on the filesystem behaviour, do this only when running "git init" to create a new repository. Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-18create_default_files(): don't set u+x bit on $GIT_DIR/configLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+2
Since time immemorial, the test of whether to set "core.filemode" has been done by trying to toggle the u+x bit on $GIT_DIR/config, which we know always exists, and then testing whether the change "took". I find it somewhat odd to use the config file for this test, but whatever. The test code didn't set the u+x bit back to its original state itself, instead relying on the subsequent call to git_config_set() to re-write the config file with correct permissions. But ever since daa22c6f8d config: preserve config file permissions on edits (2014-05-06) git_config_set() copies the permissions from the old config file to the new one. This is a good change in and of itself, but it invalidates the create_default_files()'s assumption, causing "git init" to leave the executable bit set on $GIT_DIR/config. Reset the permissions on $GIT_DIR/config when we are done with the test in create_default_files(). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-02Merge branch 'rs/strbuf-getcwd'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+11
Reduce the use of fixed sized buffer passed to getcwd() calls by introducing xgetcwd() helper. * rs/strbuf-getcwd: use strbuf_add_absolute_path() to add absolute paths abspath: convert absolute_path() to strbuf use xgetcwd() to set $GIT_DIR use xgetcwd() to get the current directory or die wrapper: add xgetcwd() abspath: convert real_path_internal() to strbuf abspath: use strbuf_getcwd() to remember original working directory setup: convert setup_git_directory_gently_1 et al. to strbuf unix-sockets: use strbuf_getcwd() strbuf: add strbuf_getcwd()
2014-08-26use xgetcwd() to set $GIT_DIRLibravatar René Scharfe1-4/+3
Instead of dying of a segmentation fault if getcwd() returns NULL, use xgetcwd() to make sure to write a useful error message and then exit in an orderly fashion. Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-26use xgetcwd() to get the current directory or dieLibravatar René Scharfe1-9/+8
Convert several calls of getcwd() and die() to use xgetcwd() instead. This way we get rid of fixed-size buffers (which can be too small depending on the used file system) and gain consistent error messages. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-28init: avoid superfluous real_path() callsLibravatar René Scharfe1-4/+4
Feeding the result of a real_path() call to real_path() again doesn't change that result -- the returned path won't get any more real. Avoid such a double call in set_git_dir_init() and for the same reason stop calling real_path() before feeding paths to set_git_work_tree(), as the latter already takes care of that. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-17i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:"Libravatar Jiang Xin1-5/+3
When extract l10n messages, we use "--add-comments" option to keep comments right above the l10n messages for references. But sometimes irrelevant comments are also extracted. For example in the following code block, the comment in line 2 will be extracted as comment for the l10n message in line 3, but obviously it's wrong. { OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "ignore-removal", &addremove_explicit, NULL /* takes no arguments */, N_("ignore paths removed in the working tree (same as --no-all)"), PARSE_OPT_NOARG, ignore_removal_cb }, Since almost all comments for l10n translators are marked with the same prefix (tag): "TRANSLATORS:", it's safe to only extract comments with this special tag. I.E. it's better to call xgettext as: xgettext --add-comments=TRANSLATORS: ... Also tweaks the multi-line comment in "init-db.c", to make it start with the proper tag, not "* TRANSLATORS:" (which has a star before the tag). Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-27Merge branch 'mh/safe-create-leading-directories'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+5
Code clean-up and protection against concurrent write access to the ref namespace. * mh/safe-create-leading-directories: rename_tmp_log(): on SCLD_VANISHED, retry rename_tmp_log(): limit the number of remote_empty_directories() attempts rename_tmp_log(): handle a possible mkdir/rmdir race rename_ref(): extract function rename_tmp_log() remove_dir_recurse(): handle disappearing files and directories remove_dir_recurse(): tighten condition for removing unreadable dir lock_ref_sha1_basic(): if locking fails with ENOENT, retry lock_ref_sha1_basic(): on SCLD_VANISHED, retry safe_create_leading_directories(): add new error value SCLD_VANISHED cmd_init_db(): when creating directories, handle errors conservatively safe_create_leading_directories(): introduce enum for return values safe_create_leading_directories(): always restore slash at end of loop safe_create_leading_directories(): split on first of multiple slashes safe_create_leading_directories(): rename local variable safe_create_leading_directories(): add explicit "slash" pointer safe_create_leading_directories(): reduce scope of local variable safe_create_leading_directories(): fix format of "if" chaining
2014-01-06cmd_init_db(): when creating directories, handle errors conservativelyLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-3/+4
safe_create_leading_directories_const() returns a non-zero value on error. The old code at this calling site recognized a couple of particular error values, and treated all other return values as success. Instead, be more conservative: recognize the errors we are interested in, but treat any other nonzero values as failures. This is more robust in case somebody adds another possible return value without telling us. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-06safe_create_leading_directories(): introduce enum for return valuesLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-2/+2
Instead of returning magic integer values (which a couple of callers go to the trouble of distinguishing), return values from an enum. Add a docstring. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()Libravatar Christian Couder1-1/+1
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API functions. The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this: $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c | grep -v strbuf\\.c | xargs perl -pi -e ' s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g; s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g; s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g; s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g; ' on the result of preparatory changes in this series. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-20i18n: init-db: mark parseopt strings for translationLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-9/+9
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-08git on Mac OS and precomposed unicodeLibravatar Torsten Bögershausen1-0/+1
Mac OS X mangles file names containing unicode on file systems HFS+, VFAT or SAMBA. When a file using unicode code points outside ASCII is created on a HFS+ drive, the file name is converted into decomposed unicode and written to disk. No conversion is done if the file name is already decomposed unicode. Calling open("\xc3\x84", ...) with a precomposed "Ä" yields the same result as open("\x41\xcc\x88",...) with a decomposed "Ä". As a consequence, readdir() returns the file names in decomposed unicode, even if the user expects precomposed unicode. Unlike on HFS+, Mac OS X stores files on a VFAT drive (e.g. an USB drive) in precomposed unicode, but readdir() still returns file names in decomposed unicode. When a git repository is stored on a network share using SAMBA, file names are send over the wire and written to disk on the remote system in precomposed unicode, but Mac OS X readdir() returns decomposed unicode to be compatible with its behaviour on HFS+ and VFAT. The unicode decomposition causes many problems: - The names "git add" and other commands get from the end user may often be precomposed form (the decomposed form is not easily input from the keyboard), but when the commands read from the filesystem to see what it is going to update the index with already is on the filesystem, readdir() will give decomposed form, which is different. - Similarly "git log", "git mv" and all other commands that need to compare pathnames found on the command line (often but not always precomposed form; a command line input resulting from globbing may be in decomposed) with pathnames found in the tree objects (should be precomposed form to be compatible with other systems and for consistency in general). - The same for names stored in the index, which should be precomposed, that may need to be compared with the names read from readdir(). NFS mounted from Linux is fully transparent and does not suffer from the above. As Mac OS X treats precomposed and decomposed file names as equal, we can - wrap readdir() on Mac OS X to return the precomposed form, and - normalize decomposed form given from the command line also to the precomposed form, to ensure that all pathnames used in Git are always in the precomposed form. This behaviour can be requested by setting "core.precomposedunicode" configuration variable to true. The code in compat/precomposed_utf8.c implements basically 4 new functions: precomposed_utf8_opendir(), precomposed_utf8_readdir(), precomposed_utf8_closedir() and precompose_argv(). The first three are to wrap opendir(3), readdir(3), and closedir(3) functions. The argv[] conversion allows to use the TAB filename completion done by the shell on command line. It tolerates other tools which use readdir() to feed decomposed file names into git. When creating a new git repository with "git init" or "git clone", "core.precomposedunicode" will be set "false". The user needs to activate this feature manually. She typically sets core.precomposedunicode to "true" on HFS and VFAT, or file systems mounted via SAMBA. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-20builtin/init-db.c: eliminate -Wformat warning on SolarisLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+1
On Solaris systems we'd warn about an implicit cast of mode_t when we printed things out with the %d format. We'd get this warning under GCC 4.6.0 with Solaris headers: builtin/init-db.c: In function ‘separate_git_dir’: builtin/init-db.c:354:4: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 2 has type ‘mode_t’ [-Wformat] We've been doing this ever since v1.7.4.1-296-gb57fb80. Just work around this by adding an explicit cast. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-22read_gitfile_gently(): rename misnamed function to read_gitfile()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The function was not gentle at all to the callers and died without giving them a chance to deal with possible errors. Rename it to read_gitfile(), and update all the callers. As no existing caller needs a true "gently" variant, we do not bother adding one at this point. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-25Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: init/clone: remove short option -L and document --separate-git-dir
2011-05-25init/clone: remove short option -L and document --separate-git-dirLibravatar Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-12i18n: mark init-db messages for translationLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-5/+5
Mark the init-db messages that were added in v1.7.5-rc1~16^2 (init, clone: support --separate-git-dir for .git file) by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy for translation. This requires splitting up the tests that the patch added so that certain parts of them can be skipped unless the C_LOCALE_OUTPUT prerequisite is satisfied. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-01Merge branch 'nd/init-gitdir'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+65
* nd/init-gitdir: init, clone: support --separate-git-dir for .git file git-init.txt: move description section up Conflicts: builtin/clone.c
2011-04-01Merge branch 'ab/i18n-st'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-26/+32
* 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
2011-03-19init, clone: support --separate-git-dir for .git fileLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-3/+65
--separate-git-dir tells git to create git dir at the specified location, instead of where it is supposed to be. A .git file that points to that location will be put in place so that it appears normal to repo discovery process. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-17Name make_*_path functions more accuratelyLibravatar Carlos Martín Nieto1-4/+4
Rename the make_*_path functions so it's clearer what they do, in particlar make clear what the differnce between make_absolute_path and make_nonrelative_path is by renaming them real_path and absolute_path respectively. make_relative_path has an understandable name and is renamed to relative_path to maintain the name convention. The function calls have been replaced 1-to-1 in their usage. Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09i18n: git-init "Initialized [...] repository" messageLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-3/+9
These messages could benefit from splitting up. An earlier version of this patch began like this: const char *reinit_shared = _("Reinitialized existing shared Git repository in %s\n"); const char *init_shared = _("Initialized empty shared Git repository in %s\n"); const char *reinit_noshared = _("Reinitialized existing Git repository in %s\n"); const char *init_noshared = _("Initialized empty Git repository in %s\n"); But in the first round of gettextization I'm aiming to keep code changes to a minimum for ease of review. So just add a comment explaining to translators how the sprintf format gets used so they can cope for now if the language's grammar allows. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09i18n: git-init basic messagesLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-23/+23
Change the user visible strings in init-db.c to use gettext localizations. This only converts messages which needed to be changed from "foo" to _("foo"), and didn't need any TRANSLATORS comments. I haven't marked the messages in init_db_usage or init_db_options for translation, since that would require additional changes in parse-options.c. Those can be done later. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-03init: remove unnecessary checkLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-7/+5
git_dir must always be non-NULL so "if (git_dir)" is unnecessary. Before this code, if git_dir == NULL, it will default to DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-15clone,init: describe --template using the same wordingLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-1/+1
This also corrects a wrong description for clone. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-22Remove all logic from get_git_work_tree()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-3/+11
This logic is now only used by cmd_init_db(). setup_* functions do not rely on it any more. Move all the logic to cmd_init_db() and turn get_git_work_tree() into a simple function. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-22setup: limit get_git_work_tree()'s to explicit setup case onlyLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+1
get_git_work_tree() takes input as core.worktree, core.bare, GIT_WORK_TREE and decides correct worktree setting. Unfortunately it does not do its job well. core.worktree and GIT_WORK_TREE should only be taken into account, if GIT_DIR is set (which is handled by setup_explicit_git_dir). For other setup cases, only core.bare matters. Add a temporary variable setup_explicit to adjust get_git_work_tree() behavior as such. This variable will be gone once setup_* rework is done. Also remove is_bare_repository_cfg check in set_git_work_tree() to ease the rework. We are going to check for core.bare and core.worktree early before setting worktree. For example, if core.bare is true, no need to set worktree. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-06init: plug tiny one-time memory leakLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-13/+19
The buffer used to construct paths like ".git/objects/info" and ".git/objects/pack" is allocated on the heap and never freed. So free it. While at it, factor out the relevant code into its own function and rename the sha1_dir variable to object_directory (to match the change in everyday usage after the renaming of SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY in v0.99~603^2~7, 2005). Noticed by valgrind while setting up tests (in test-lib). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-10handle "git --bare init <dir>" properlyLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
If we know we are creating a bare repository, we use setenv to set the GIT_DIR directory to the current directory (either where we already were, or one we created and chdir'd into with "git init --bare <dir>"). However, with "git --bare init <dir>" (note the --bare as a git wrapper option), the setup code actually sets GIT_DIR for us, but it uses the wrong, original cwd when a directory is given. Because our setenv does not use the overwrite flag, it is ignored. We need to set the overwrite flag, but only when we are given a directory on the command line. That still allows: GIT_DIR=foo.git git init --bare to work. The behavior is changed for: GIT_DIR=foo.git git init --bare bar.git which used to create the repository in foo.git, but now will use bar.git. This is more sane, as command line options should generally override the environment. Noticed by Oliver Hoffmann. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-10Merge branch 'sd/init-template'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+14
* sd/init-template: wrap-for-bin: do not export an empty GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR t/t0001-init.sh: add test for 'init with init.templatedir set' init: having keywords without value is not a global error. Add a "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section to git-init[1]. Add `init.templatedir` configuration variable.
2010-03-10Merge branch 'lt/deepen-builtin-source'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+501
* lt/deepen-builtin-source: Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory Conflicts: Makefile
2010-02-22Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectoryLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+498
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>