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Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Rast
28452655af diff_setup_done(): return void
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>
2012-08-03 12:11:07 -07:00
Jeff King
e54501004a diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
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>
2012-07-29 15:04:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b700086d84 Merge branch 'jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev' into maint
"git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit
object names in its output are unique.

* jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev:
  blame: compute abbreviation width that ensures uniqueness
2012-07-11 12:58:28 -07:00
Thomas Gummerer
b60e188c51 Strip namelen out of ce_flags into a ce_namelen field
Strip the name length from the ce_flags field and move it
into its own ce_namelen field in struct cache_entry. This
will both give us a tiny bit of a performance enhancement
when working with long pathnames and is a refactoring for
more readability of the code.

It enhances readability, by making it more clear what
is a flag, and where the length is stored and make it clear
which functions use stages in comparisions and which only
use the length.

It also makes CE_NAMEMASK private, so that users don't
mistakenly write the name length in the flags.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-11 09:42:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3a335ee2da Merge branch 'jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev'
"git blame" did not try to make sure the abbreviated commit object
names in its output are unique.

* jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev:
  blame: compute abbreviation width that ensures uniqueness
2012-07-09 09:01:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b31272f704 blame: compute abbreviation width that ensures uniqueness
Julia Lawall noticed that in linux-next repository the commit object
60d5c9f5 (shown with the default abbreviation width baked into "git
blame") in output from

  $ git blame -L 3675,3675 60d5c9f5b -- \
      drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_iw.c

is no longer unique in the repository, which results in "short SHA1
60d5c9f5 is ambiguous".

Compute the minimum abbreviation width that ensures uniqueness when
the user did not specify the --abbrev option to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-02 00:54:19 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
85c20c304f builtin/blame.c: Fix a "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" warning
Plain gcc may not but sparse catches and complains about this sort of
stuff.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-14 10:19:42 -07:00
René Scharfe
4b4132fd89 blame: factor out helper for calling xdi_diff()
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-09 14:08:27 -07:00
René Scharfe
5d23ec7664 blame: use hunk_func(), part 2
Use handle_split_cb() directly as hunk_func() callback, without going
through xdi_diff_hunks().

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-09 14:03:23 -07:00
René Scharfe
0af596c6ff blame: use hunk_func(), part 1
Use blame_chunk_cb() directly as hunk_func() callback, without detour
through xdi_diff_hunks().

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-09 14:03:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
089c0ca8b6 Merge branch 'jc/maint-blame-minimal' into maint
"git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin since we
stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2 era.

Teach "--minimal" option to "git blame" to work around this regression.

* jc/maint-blame-minimal:
  blame: accept --need-minimal
2012-05-01 21:11:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9d76db4e67 Merge branch 'jc/maint-blame-minimal'
"git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin since we
stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2 era.

* jc/maint-blame-minimal:
  blame: accept --need-minimal
2012-04-23 12:58:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
059a500d25 blame: accept --need-minimal
Between v1.7.1 and v1.7.2, 582aa00bdf switched the default "diff"
invocation not to use XDF_NEED_MINIMAL, but this breaks "git blame"
rather badly.

Allow the command line option to ask for an extra careful matching.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-11 13:11:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4d9e079e82 Merge branch 'zj/decimal-width'
* zj/decimal-width:
  make lineno_width() from blame reusable for others

Conflicts:
	cache.h
	pager.c
2012-02-20 00:15:11 -08:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
ec7ff5ba27 make lineno_width() from blame reusable for others
builtin/blame.c has a helper function to compute how many columns
we need to show a line-number, whose implementation is reusable as
a more generic helper function to count the number of columns
necessary to show any cardinal number.

Rename it to decimal_width(), move it to pager.c and export it for
use by future callers.

Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-14 16:16:19 -08:00
Jeff King
6680a0874f drop odd return value semantics from userdiff_config
When the userdiff_config function was introduced in be58e70
(diff: unify external diff and funcname parsing code,
2008-10-05), it used a return value convention unlike any
other config callback. Like other callbacks, it used "-1" to
signal error. But it returned "1" to indicate that it found
something, and "0" otherwise; other callbacks simply
returned "0" to indicate that no error occurred.

This distinction was necessary at the time, because the
userdiff namespace overlapped slightly with the color
configuration namespace. So "diff.color.foo" could mean "the
'foo' slot of diff coloring" or "the 'foo' component of the
"color" userdiff driver". Because the color-parsing code
would die on an unknown color slot, we needed the userdiff
code to indicate that it had matched the variable, letting
us bypass the color-parsing code entirely.

Later, in 8b8e862 (ignore unknown color configuration,
2009-12-12), the color-parsing code learned to silently
ignore unknown slots. This means we no longer need to
protect userdiff-matched variables from reaching the
color-parsing code.

We can therefore change the userdiff_config calling
convention to a more normal one. This drops some code from
each caller, which is nice. But more importantly, it reduces
the cognitive load for readers who may wonder why
userdiff_config is unlike every other config callback.

There's no need to add a new test confirming that this
works; t4020 already contains a test that sets
diff.color.external.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-07 10:44:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8311158c66 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint
* maint-1.7.7:
  Git 1.7.7.5
  Git 1.7.6.5
  blame: don't overflow time buffer
  fetch: create status table using strbuf
  checkout,merge: loosen overwriting untracked file check based on info/exclude
  cast variable in call to free() in builtin/diff.c and submodule.c
  apply: get rid of useless x < 0 comparison on a size_t type

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git.txt
	GIT-VERSION-GEN
	RelNotes
	builtin/fetch.c
2011-12-13 21:58:51 -08:00
Jeff King
c3ea051544 blame: don't overflow time buffer
When showing the raw timestamp, we format the numeric
seconds-since-epoch into a buffer, followed by the timezone
string. This string has come straight from the commit
object. A well-formed object should have a timezone string
of only a few bytes, but we could be operating on data
pushed by a malicious user.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-13 21:09:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
92622e6214 Merge branch 'ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree'
* ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree:
  blame.c: Properly initialize strbuf after calling textconv_object(), again
2011-11-07 16:43:19 -08:00
Sebastian Schuberth
8518088fe8 blame.c: Properly initialize strbuf after calling textconv_object(), again
2564aa4 started to initialize buf.alloc, but that should actually be one
more byte than the string length due to the trailing \0. Also, do not
modify buf.alloc out of the strbuf code. Use the existing strbuf_attach
instead.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 16:42:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b919f8404a Merge branch 'ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree'
* ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree:
  (squash) test for previous
  blame.c: Properly initialize strbuf after calling, textconv_object()

Conflicts:
	t/t8006-blame-textconv.sh
2011-11-01 15:20:28 -07:00
Sebastian Schuberth
2564aa48ce blame.c: Properly initialize strbuf after calling, textconv_object()
For a plain string where only the length is known, strbuf.alloc needs to
be initialized to the length. Otherwise strbuf.alloc is 0 and a later
call to strbuf_setlen() will fail.

This bug surfaced when calling git blame under Windows on a *.doc file.
The *.doc file is converted to plain text by antiword via the textconv
mechanism. However, the plain text returned by antiword contains DOS line
endings instead of Unix line endings which triggered the strbuf_setlen()
which previous to this patch failed.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-28 08:41:56 -07:00
Jeff King
ed747dd521 blame: add --line-porcelain output format
This is just like --porcelain, except that we always output
the commit information for each line, not just the first
time it is referenced. This can make quick and dirty scripts
much easier to write; see the example added to the blame
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-09 15:27:50 -07:00
Jeff King
e86226e340 blame: refactor porcelain output
This is in preparation for adding more porcelain output
options. The three changes are:

  1. emit_porcelain now receives the format option flags

  2. emit_one_suspect_detail takes an optional "repeat"
     parameter to suppress the "show only once" behavior

  3. The code for emitting porcelain suspect is factored
     into its own function for repeatability.

There should be no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-09 15:27:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2190a43c42 Merge branch 'js/blame-parsename'
* js/blame-parsename:
  t/annotate-tests: Use echo & cat instead of sed
  blame: tolerate bogus e-mail addresses a bit better
2011-05-06 10:50:32 -07:00
Josh Stone
9b01f0038b blame: tolerate bogus e-mail addresses a bit better
The names and e-mails are sanitized by fmt_ident() when creating commits,
so that they do not contain "<" nor ">", and the "committer" and "author"
lines in the commit object will always be in the form:

    ("author" | "committer") name SP "<" email ">" SP timestamp SP zone

When parsing the email part out, the current code looks for SP starting
from the end of the email part, but the author could obfuscate the address
as "author at example dot com".

We should instead look for SP followed by "<", to match the logic of the
side that formats these lines.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-29 11:09:42 -07:00
Namhyung Kim
84393bfd73 blame: add --abbrev command line option and make it honor core.abbrev
If user sets config.abbrev option, use it as if --abbrev was given.  This
is the default value and user can override different abbrev length by
specifying the --abbrev=N command line option.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-05 20:08:41 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
9cba13ca5d standardize brace placement in struct definitions
In a struct definitions, unlike functions, the prevailing style is for
the opening brace to go on the same line as the struct name, like so:

 struct foo {
	int bar;
	char *baz;
 };

Indeed, grepping for 'struct [a-z_]* {$' yields about 5 times as many
matches as 'struct [a-z_]*$'.

Linus sayeth:

 Heretic people all over the world have claimed that this inconsistency
 is ...  well ...  inconsistent, but all right-thinking people know that
 (a) K&R are _right_ and (b) K&R are right.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-16 12:49:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6e67619d0c Merge branch 'jn/parse-options-extra'
* jn/parse-options-extra:
  update-index: migrate to parse-options API
  setup: save prefix (original cwd relative to toplevel) in startup_info
  parse-options: make resuming easier after PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION
  parse-options: allow git commands to invent new option types
  parse-options: never suppress arghelp if LITERAL_ARGHELP is set
  parse-options: do not infer PARSE_OPT_NOARG from option type
  parse-options: sanity check PARSE_OPT_NOARG flag
  parse-options: move NODASH sanity checks to parse_options_check
  parse-options: clearer reporting of API misuse
  parse-options: Don't call parse_options_check() so much
2010-12-12 21:49:53 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
9ca1169fd9 parse-options: Don't call parse_options_check() so much
parse_options_check() is being called for each invocation of
parse_options_step which can be quite a bit for some commands. The
commit introducing this function cb9d398 (parse-options: add
parse_options_check to validate option specs., 2009-06-09) had the
correct motivation and explicitly states that parse_options_check()
should be called from parse_options_start(). However, the implementation
differs from the motivation. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-06 16:51:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4ef927a995 Merge branch 'kb/blame-author-email'
* kb/blame-author-email:
  blame: Add option to show author email instead of name

Conflicts:
	t/annotate-tests.sh
2010-11-29 17:52:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dd9d290bc9 Merge branch 'ks/no-textconv-symlink'
* ks/no-textconv-symlink:
  blame,cat-file --textconv: Don't assume mode is ``S_IFREF | 0664''
  blame,cat-file: Demonstrate --textconv is wrongly running converter on symlinks
  blame,cat-file: Prepare --textconv tests for correctly-failing conversion program
2010-11-17 14:59:27 -08:00
Kevin Ballard
1b8cdce94f blame: Add option to show author email instead of name
Add a new option -e (or --show-email) to git-blame that will display
the author's email instead of name on each line. This option works
for both git-blame and git-annotate.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-19 12:00:28 -07:00
Kirill Smelkov
900647104e blame,cat-file --textconv: Don't assume mode is ``S_IFREF | 0664''
We need to get the correct mode when blame reads the source from the
working tree, the index, or trees.  This allows us to omit running
textconv filters on symbolic links.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-29 16:53:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bc38219f50 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Typos in code comments, an error message, documentation
2010-08-22 20:18:37 -07:00
Ralf Wildenhues
22e5e58a3c Typos in code comments, an error message, documentation
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-22 13:25:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
165dc789d5 Merge branch 'cc/find-commit-subject'
* cc/find-commit-subject:
  blame: use find_commit_subject() instead of custom code
  merge-recursive: use find_commit_subject() instead of custom code
  bisect: use find_commit_subject() instead of custom code
  revert: rename variables related to subject in get_message()
  revert: refactor code to find commit subject in find_commit_subject()
  revert: fix off by one read when searching the end of a commit subject
2010-08-18 12:46:55 -07:00
Christian Couder
ad98a58b3d blame: use find_commit_subject() instead of custom code
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-23 16:12:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cf4403a010 Merge branch 'cp/textconv-cat-file'
* cp/textconv-cat-file:
  git-cat-file.txt: Document --textconv
  t/t8007: test textconv support for cat-file
  textconv: support for cat_file
  sha1_name: add get_sha1_with_context()
2010-06-27 12:07:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4af574dbdc Merge branch 'ab/blame-textconv'
* ab/blame-textconv:
  t/t8006: test textconv support for blame
  textconv: support for blame
  textconv: make the API public

Conflicts:
	diff.h
2010-06-27 12:07:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8d676d85f7 Merge branch 'gv/portable'
* gv/portable:
  test-lib: use DIFF definition from GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
  build: propagate $DIFF to scripts
  Makefile: Tru64 portability fix
  Makefile: HP-UX 10.20 portability fixes
  Makefile: HPUX11 portability fixes
  Makefile: SunOS 5.6 portability fix
  inline declaration does not work on AIX
  Allow disabling "inline"
  Some platforms lack socklen_t type
  Make NO_{INET_NTOP,INET_PTON} configured independently
  Makefile: some platforms do not have hstrerror anywhere
  git-compat-util.h: some platforms with mmap() lack MAP_FAILED definition
  test_cmp: do not use "diff -u" on platforms that lack one
  fixup: do not unconditionally disable "diff -u"
  tests: use "test_cmp", not "diff", when verifying the result
  Do not use "diff" found on PATH while building and installing
  enums: omit trailing comma for portability
  Makefile: -lpthread may still be necessary when libc has only pthread stubs
  Rewrite dynamic structure initializations to runtime assignment
  Makefile: pass CPPFLAGS through to fllow customization

Conflicts:
	Makefile
	wt-status.h
2010-06-21 06:02:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
60335534a6 Merge branch 'rs/diff-no-minimal' into maint
* rs/diff-no-minimal:
  git diff too slow for a file
2010-06-21 05:38:50 -07:00
Clément Poulain
e5fba602e5 textconv: support for cat_file
Make the textconv_object function public, and add --textconv option to cat-file
to perform conversion on blob objects. Using --textconv implies that we are
working on a blob.
As files drivers need to be initialized, a new config is required in addition
to git_default_config. Therefore git_cat_file_config() is introduced

Signed-off-by: Clément Poulain <clement.poulain@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Diane Gasselin <diane.gasselin@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Axel Bonnet <axel.bonnet@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-18 12:57:21 -07:00
Axel Bonnet
3b8a12e8f8 textconv: support for blame
This patches enables to perform textconv with blame if a textconv driver is
available fos the file.

The main task is performed by the textconv_object function which prepares
diff_filespec and if possible converts the file using diff textconv API.
Only regular files are converted, so the mode of diff_filespec is faked.

Textconv conversion is enabled by default (equivalent to the option
--textconv), since blaming binary files is useless in most cases.
The option --no-textconv is used to disable textconv conversion.

The declarations of several functions are modified to give access to a
diff_options, in order to know whether the textconv option is activated or not.

Signed-off-by: Axel Bonnet <axel.bonnet@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Clément Poulain <clement.poulain@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Diane Gasselin <diane.gasselin@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-18 09:41:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
39b5977b13 Merge branch 'rs/diff-no-minimal'
* rs/diff-no-minimal:
  git diff too slow for a file
2010-06-13 11:20:46 -07:00
Tor Arntsen
2543d9b609 Change C99 comments to old-style C comments
Signed-off-by: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-07 15:50:21 -07:00
Gary V. Vaughan
66dbfd55e3 Rewrite dynamic structure initializations to runtime assignment
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of production systems with
vendor compilers that choke unless all compound declarations can be
determined statically at compile time, for example hpux10.20 (I can
provide a comprehensive list of our supported platforms that exhibit
this problem if necessary).

This patch simply breaks apart any compound declarations with dynamic
initialisation expressions, and moves the initialisation until after
the last declaration in the same block, in all the places necessary to
have the offending compilers accept the code.

Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@thewrittenword.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-31 16:59:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3a27f415df Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  don't use default revision if a rev was specified
  for_each_recent_reflog_ent(): use strbuf, fix offset handling
  t/Makefile: remove test artifacts upon "make clean"
  blame: fix indent of line numbers
2010-03-13 21:31:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
81b50f3ce4 Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory
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>
2010-02-22 14:29:41 -08:00