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2015-06-29convert "enum date_mode" into a structLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+2
In preparation for adding date modes that may carry extra information beyond the mode itself, this patch converts the date_mode enum into a struct. Most of the conversion is fairly straightforward; we pass the struct as a pointer and dereference the type field where necessary. Locations that declare a date_mode can use a "{}" constructor. However, the tricky case is where we use the enum labels as constants, like: show_date(t, tz, DATE_NORMAL); Ideally we could say: show_date(t, tz, &{ DATE_NORMAL }); but of course C does not allow that. Likewise, we cannot cast the constant to a struct, because we need to pass an actual address. Our options are basically: 1. Manually add a "struct date_mode d = { DATE_NORMAL }" definition to each caller, and pass "&d". This makes the callers uglier, because they sometimes do not even have their own scope (e.g., they are inside a switch statement). 2. Provide a pre-made global "date_normal" struct that can be passed by address. We'd also need "date_rfc2822", "date_iso8601", and so forth. But at least the ugliness is defined in one place. 3. Provide a wrapper that generates the correct struct on the fly. The big downside is that we end up pointing to a single global, which makes our wrapper non-reentrant. But show_date is already not reentrant, so it does not matter. This patch implements 3, along with a minor macro to keep the size of the callers sane. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-29show-branch: use DATE_RELATIVE instead of magic numberLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
This is more readable, and won't break if we ever change the order of the date_mode enum. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25cmd_show_branch(): fix error messageLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+1
We need to convert the SHA-1 to hexadecimal before printing it. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25builtin/show-branch: rewrite functions to work with object_idLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-21/+21
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25append_one_rev(): rewrite to work with object_idLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25builtin/show-branch: rewrite functions to take object_id argumentsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-18/+17
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25append_matching_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argumentLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-7/+6
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25each_ref_fn: change to take an object_id parameterLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-3/+12
Change typedef each_ref_fn to take a "const struct object_id *oid" parameter instead of "const unsigned char *sha1". To aid this transition, implement an adapter that can be used to wrap old-style functions matching the old typedef, which is now called "each_ref_sha1_fn"), and make such functions callable via the new interface. This requires the old function and its cb_data to be wrapped in a "struct each_ref_fn_sha1_adapter", and that object to be used as the cb_data for an adapter function, each_ref_fn_adapter(). This is an enormous diff, but most of it consists of simple, mechanical changes to the sites that call any of the "for_each_ref" family of functions. Subsequent to this change, the call sites can be rewritten one by one to use the new interface. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-05Merge branch 'mh/show-branch-topic'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
"git show-branch --topics HEAD" (with no other arguments) did not do anything interesting. Instead, contrast the given revision against all the local branches by default. * mh/show-branch-topic: show-branch: show all local heads when only giving one rev along --topics
2015-03-31show-branch: show all local heads when only giving one rev along --topicsLibravatar Mike Hommey1-3/+3
"git show-branch --topics <rev> <revs>..." displays ancestry graph, only considering commits that are in all given revs, except the first one. "git show-branch" displays ancestry graph for all local branches. Unfortunately, "git show-branch --topics <rev>" only prints out the rev info for the given rev, and nothing else, e.g.: $ git show-branch --topics origin/master [origin/master] Sync with 2.3.3 While there is an option to add all remote-tracking branches (-r), and another to add all local+remote branches (-a), there is no option to add only local branches. Adding such an option could be considered, but a user would likely already expect that the above command line considers the lack of rev other than for --topics as meaning all local branches, like when there is no argument at all. Moreover, when using -r and -a along with --topics, the first local or remote-tracking branch, depending on alphabetic order is used instead of the one given after --topics (any rev given on the command line is actually simply ignored when either -r or -a is given). And if no rev is given at all, the fact that the first alphetical branch is the base of topics is probably not expected by users (Maybe --topics should always require one rev on the command line?) This change makes "show-branch --topics $rev" act as "show-branch --topics $rev $(git for-each-ref refs/heads --format='%(refname:short)')" "show-branch -r --topics $rev ..." act as "show-branch --topics $rev ... $(git for-each-ref refs/remotes --format='%(refname:short)')" instead of "show-branch --topics $(git for-each-ref refs/remotes --format='%(refname:short)')" and "show-branch -a --topics $rev ..." act as "show-branch --topics $rev ... $(git for-each-ref refs/heads refs/remotes --format='%(refname:short)')" instead of "show-branch --topics $(git for-each-ref refs/heads refs/remotes --format='%(refname:short)')" Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-02-11Merge branch 'ah/usage-strings'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* ah/usage-strings: standardize usage info string format
2015-01-20Merge branch 'ak/show-branch-usage-string'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
* ak/show-branch-usage-string: show-branch: fix indentation of usage string
2015-01-20show-branch: fix indentation of usage stringLibravatar Ralf Thielow1-3/+3
Noticed-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-14Merge branch 'ak/show-branch-usage-string'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
* ak/show-branch-usage-string: show-branch: line-wrap show-branch usage
2015-01-14standardize usage info string formatLibravatar Alex Henrie1-2/+2
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>
2015-01-08show-branch: line-wrap show-branch usageLibravatar Alexander Kuleshov1-1/+4
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-15refs.c: change resolve_ref_unsafe reading argument to be a flags fieldLibravatar Ronnie Sahlberg1-2/+5
resolve_ref_unsafe takes a boolean argument for reading (a nonexistent ref resolves successfully for writing but not for reading). Change this to be a flags field instead, and pass the new constant RESOLVE_REF_READING when we want this behaviour. While at it, swap two of the arguments in the function to put output arguments at the end. As a nice side effect, this ensures that we can catch callers that were unaware of the new API so they can be audited. Give the wrapper functions resolve_refdup and read_ref_full the same treatment for consistency. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-29Merge branch 'da/rev-parse-verify-quiet'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
"rev-parse --verify --quiet $name" is meant to quietly exit with a non-zero status when $name is not a valid object name, but still gave error messages in some cases. * da/rev-parse-verify-quiet: stash: prefer --quiet over shell redirection of the standard error stream refs: make rev-parse --quiet actually quiet t1503: use test_must_be_empty Documentation: a note about stdout for git rev-parse --verify --quiet
2014-09-19refs: make rev-parse --quiet actually quietLibravatar David Aguilar1-2/+3
When a reflog is deleted, e.g. when "git stash" clears its stashes, "git rev-parse --verify --quiet" dies: fatal: Log for refs/stash is empty. The reason is that the get_sha1() code path does not allow us to suppress this message. Pass the flags bitfield through get_sha1_with_context() so that read_ref_at() can suppress the message. Use get_sha1_with_context1() instead of get_sha1() in rev-parse so that the --quiet flag is honored. Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-18use REALLOC_ARRAY for changing the allocation size of arraysLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-28Merge branch 'jk/misc-fixes-maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* jk/misc-fixes-maint: apply: avoid possible bogus pointer fix memory leak parsing core.commentchar transport: fix leaks in refs_from_alternate_cb free ref string returned by dwim_ref receive-pack: don't copy "dir" parameter
2014-07-24free ref string returned by dwim_refLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
A call to "dwim_ref(name, len, flags, &ref)" will allocate a new string in "ref" to return the exact ref we found. We do not consistently free it in all code paths, leading to small leaks. The worst is in get_sha1_basic, which may be called many times (e.g., by "cat-file --batch"), though it is relatively unlikely, as it only triggers on a bogus reflog specification. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-19use xstrfmt to replace xmalloc + sprintfLibravatar Jeff King1-6/+4
This is one line shorter, and makes sure the length in the malloc and sprintf steps match. These conversions are very straightforward; we can drop the malloc entirely, and replace the sprintf with xstrfmt. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-20use wildmatch() directly without fnmatch() wrapperLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Make it clear that we don't use fnmatch() anymore. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-17Merge branch 'cc/starts-n-ends-with'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+10
Remove a few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix comparison functions, and rename them to starts_with and ends_with. * cc/starts-n-ends-with: replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with() strbuf: introduce starts_with() and ends_with() builtin/remote: remove postfixcmp() and use suffixcmp() instead environment: normalize use of prefixcmp() by removing " != 0"
2013-12-05replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()Libravatar Christian Couder1-10/+10
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>
2013-12-05Merge branch 'jk/robustify-parse-commit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
* jk/robustify-parse-commit: checkout: do not die when leaving broken detached HEAD use parse_commit_or_die instead of custom message use parse_commit_or_die instead of segfaulting assume parse_commit checks for NULL commit assume parse_commit checks commit->object.parsed log_tree_diff: die when we fail to parse a commit
2013-10-24assume parse_commit checks commit->object.parsedLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+1
The parse_commit function will check the "parsed" flag of the object and do nothing if it is set. There is no need for callers to check the flag themselves, and doing so only clutters the code. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOLLibravatar Stefan Beller1-14/+14
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN, 2011-09-27). All occurrences of the respective variables have been reviewed and none of them relied on the counting up mechanism, but all of them were using the variable as a true boolean. This patch does not change semantics of any command intentionally. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-22Merge branch 'tr/do-not-call-submodules-subprojects'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* tr/do-not-call-submodules-subprojects: show-branch: fix description of --date-order apply, entry: speak of submodules instead of subprojects
2013-07-18show-branch: fix description of --date-orderLibravatar Thomas Rast1-3/+3
The existing description reads as if it somehow applies a filter. Change it to explain that it is merely about the ordering. Message-proposed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-01Merge branch 'jc/topo-author-date-sort'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+8
"git log" learned the "--author-date-order" option, with which the output is topologically sorted and commits in parallel histories are shown intermixed together based on the author timestamp. * jc/topo-author-date-sort: t6003: add --author-date-order test topology tests: teach a helper to set author dates as well t6003: add --date-order test topology tests: teach a helper to take abbreviated timestamps t/lib-t6000: style fixes log: --author-date-order sort-in-topological-order: use prio-queue prio-queue: priority queue of pointers to structs toposort: rename "lifo" field
2013-06-11toposort: rename "lifo" fieldLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+8
The primary invariant of sort_in_topological_order() is that a parent commit is not emitted until all children of it are. When traversing a forked history like this with "git log C E": A----B----C \ D----E we ensure that A is emitted after all of B, C, D, and E are done, B has to wait until C is done, and D has to wait until E is done. In some applications, however, we would further want to control how these child commits B, C, D and E on two parallel ancestry chains are shown. Most of the time, we would want to see C and B emitted together, and then E and D, and finally A (i.e. the --topo-order output). The "lifo" parameter of the sort_in_topological_order() function is used to control this behaviour. We start the traversal by knowing two commits, C and E. While keeping in mind that we also need to inspect E later, we pick C first to inspect, and we notice and record that B needs to be inspected. By structuring the "work to be done" set as a LIFO stack, we ensure that B is inspected next, before other in-flight commits we had known that we will need to inspect, e.g. E. When showing in --date-order, we would want to see commits ordered by timestamps, i.e. show C, E, B and D in this order before showing A, possibly mixing commits from two parallel histories together. When "lifo" parameter is set to false, the function keeps the "work to be done" set sorted in the date order to realize this semantics. After inspecting C, we add B to the "work to be done" set, but the next commit we inspect from the set is E which is newer than B. The name "lifo", however, is too strongly tied to the way how the function implements its behaviour, and does not describe what the behaviour _means_. Replace this field with an enum rev_sort_order, with two possible values: REV_SORT_IN_GRAPH_ORDER and REV_SORT_BY_COMMIT_DATE, and update the existing code. The mechanical replacement rule is: "lifo == 0" is equivalent to "sort_order == REV_SORT_BY_COMMIT_DATE" "lifo == 1" is equivalent to "sort_order == REV_SORT_IN_GRAPH_ORDER" Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-06show-branch: use strbuf instead of static bufferLibravatar Jeff King1-9/+8
When we generate relative names (e.g., "master~20^2"), we format the name into a static buffer, then xstrdup the result to attach it to the commit. Since the first thing we add into the static buffer is the already-computed name of the child commit, the names may get longer and longer as the traversal gets deeper, and we may eventually overflow the fixed-size buffer. Fix this by converting the fixed-size buffer into a dynamic strbuf. The performance implications should be minimal, as we end up allocating a heap copy of the name anyway (and now we can just detach the heap copy from the strbuf). Reported-by: Eric Roman <eroman@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-22i18n: show-branch: mark parseopt strings for translationLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-21/+21
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-13Rename resolve_ref() to resolve_ref_unsafe()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
resolve_ref() may return a pointer to a shared buffer and can be overwritten by the next resolve_ref() calls. Callers need to pay attention, not to keep the pointer when the next call happens. Rename with "_unsafe" suffix to warn developers (or reviewers) before introducing new call sites. This patch is generated using the following command git grep -l 'resolve_ref(' -- '*.[ch]'|xargs sed -i 's/resolve_ref(/resolve_ref_unsafe(/g' Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-13Convert resolve_ref+xstrdup to new resolve_refdup functionLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-3/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@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>
2011-08-19color: delay auto-color decision until point of useLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
When we read a color value either from a config file or from the command line, we use git_config_colorbool to convert it from the tristate always/never/auto into a single yes/no boolean value. This has some timing implications with respect to starting a pager. If we start (or decide not to start) the pager before checking the colorbool, everything is fine. Either isatty(1) will give us the right information, or we will properly check for pager_in_use(). However, if we decide to start a pager after we have checked the colorbool, things are not so simple. If stdout is a tty, then we will have already decided to use color. However, the user may also have configured color.pager not to use color with the pager. In this case, we need to actually turn off color. Unfortunately, the pager code has no idea which color variables were turned on (and there are many of them throughout the code, and they may even have been manipulated after the colorbool selection by something like "--color" on the command line). This bug can be seen any time a pager is started after config and command line options are checked. This has affected "git diff" since 89d07f7 (diff: don't run pager if user asked for a diff style exit code, 2007-08-12). It has also affect the log family since 1fda91b (Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case, 2010-08-24). This patch splits the notion of parsing a colorbool and actually checking the configuration. The "use_color" variables now have an additional possible value, GIT_COLOR_AUTO. Users of the variable should use the new "want_color()" wrapper, which will lazily determine and cache the auto-color decision. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-18git_config_colorbool: refactor stdout_is_tty handlingLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
Usually this function figures out for itself whether stdout is a tty. However, it has an extra parameter just to allow git-config to override the auto-detection for its --get-colorbool option. Instead of an extra parameter, let's just use a global variable. This makes calling easier in the common case, and will make refactoring the colorbool code much simpler. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-31Merge branch 'jk/format-patch-am'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
* jk/format-patch-am: format-patch: preserve subject newlines with -k clean up calling conventions for pretty.c functions pretty: add pp_commit_easy function for simple callers mailinfo: always clean up rfc822 header folding t: test subject handling in format-patch / am pipeline Conflicts: builtin/branch.c builtin/log.c commit.h
2011-05-26pretty: add pp_commit_easy function for simple callersLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+1
Many callers don't actually care about the pretty print context at all; let's just give them a simple way of pretty-printing a commit without having to create a context struct. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-04Share color list between graph and show-branchLibravatar Dan McGee1-13/+3
This also adds the new colors to show-branch that were added a while back for graph output. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-29commit: Add commit_list prefix in two function names.Libravatar Thiago Farina1-3/+3
Add commit_list prefix to insert_by_date function and to sort_by_date, so it's clear that these functions refer to commit_list structure. Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08Use parentheses and `...' where appropriateLibravatar Štěpán Němec1-1/+1
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the same purpose. Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-25show-branch: use DEFAULT_ABBREV instead of 7Libravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-10Merge branch 'lt/deepen-builtin-source'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+967
* lt/deepen-builtin-source: Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory Conflicts: Makefile
2010-02-22Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectoryLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+967
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>