[PATCH v3 5/5] completion: fix completion after 'git --option <TAB>'

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx>

Git's bash completion currently doesn't work when certain git options
are specified, e.g. 'git --no-pager <TAB>' errors out with "error:
invalid key: alias.--no-pager".

The main _git() completion function finds out the git command name by
looping through all the words on the command line and searching for
the first word that is not a known option for the git command.
Unfortunately the list of known git options was not updated in a long
time, and newer options are not skipped but mistaken for a git
command.  Such a misrecognized "command" is then passed to
__git_aliased_command(), which in turn passes it to a 'git config'
query, hence the error.

Currently the following options are misrecognized for a git command:

  -c --no-pager --exec-path --html-path --man-path --info-path
  --no-replace-objects --work-tree= --namespace=

To fix this we could just update the list of options to be skipped,
but the same issue will likely arise, if the git command learns a new
option in the future.  Therefore, to make it more future proof against
new options, this patch changes that loop to skip all option-looking
words, i.e. words starting with a dash.

We also have to handle the '-c' option specially, because it takes a
configutation parameter in a separate word, which must be skipped,
too.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx>
[added tests]
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |    3 ++-
 t/t9902-completion.sh                  |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 647ee77..192e444 100755
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -2623,8 +2623,9 @@ _git ()
 		case "$i" in
 		--git-dir=*) __git_dir="${i#--git-dir=}" ;;
 		--bare)      __git_dir="." ;;
-		--version|-p|--paginate) ;;
 		--help) command="help"; break ;;
+		-c) c=$((++c)) ;;
+		-*) ;;
 		*) command="$i"; break ;;
 		esac
 		((c++))
diff --git a/t/t9902-completion.sh b/t/t9902-completion.sh
index dfef809..ab72378 100755
--- a/t/t9902-completion.sh
+++ b/t/t9902-completion.sh
@@ -138,4 +138,21 @@ test_expect_success 'general options' '
 	test_completion "git --inf" "--info-path " &&
 	test_completion "git --no-r" "--no-replace-objects "
 '
+
+test_expect_success 'general options plus command' '
+	test_completion "git --version check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --paginate check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --git-dir=foo check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --bare check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --help des" "describe " &&
+	test_completion "git --exec-path=foo check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --html-path check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --no-pager check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --work-tree=foo check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --namespace=foo check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --paginate check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --info-path check" "checkout " &&
+	test_completion "git --no-replace-objects check" "checkout "
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
1.7.10.1.g1f19b8.dirty

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