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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail•com>
To: Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Elijah Newren <newren@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] completion: squelch stray errors in sparse-checkout completion
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:39:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231124183938.GB11157@szeder.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <591c7b8d73b1a93feaa749d68156a198a7e32a9c.1700761448.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 05:44:05PM +0000, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail•com>
> 
> If, in the root of a project, one types
> 
>     git sparse-checkout set --cone ../<TAB>
> 
> then an error message of the form
> 
>     fatal: ../: '../' is outside repository at '/home/newren/floss/git'
> 
> is written to stderr, which munges the users view of their own command.
> Squelch such messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail•com>
> ---
>  contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> index ba5c395d2d8..6fced40d04c 100644
> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> @@ -3014,7 +3014,7 @@ __gitcomp_directories ()
>  			COMPREPLY+=("$c/")
>  			_found=1
>  		fi
> -	done < <(git ls-tree -z -d --name-only HEAD $_tmp_dir)
> +	done < <(git ls-tree -z -d --name-only HEAD $_tmp_dir 2>/dev/null)

It would be better to use the __git wrapper instead, like the wast
majority of git invocations in our completion script, because it not
only takes care of squelching standard error, but also takes into
account any -C dir and/or --git-dir options present on the command
line.

e15098a314 (completion: consolidate silencing errors from git
commands, 2017-02-03)


>  
>  	if [[ $_found == 0 ]] && [[ "$cur" =~ /$ ]]; then
>  		# No possible further completions any deeper, so assume we're at
> -- 
> gitgitgadget
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-24 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-23 17:44 [PATCH 0/4] Sparse checkout completion fixes Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-11-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 1/4] completion: squelch stray errors in sparse-checkout completion Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-11-24 18:39   ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2023-11-24 20:05     ` Elijah Newren
2023-11-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 2/4] completion: fix logic for determining whether cone mode is active Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-11-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 3/4] completion: avoid misleading completions in cone mode Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-11-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 4/4] completion: avoid user confusion in non-cone mode Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-11-24  1:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-11-24 15:28     ` Elijah Newren
2023-11-27  1:39       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-12-03  5:57         ` Elijah Newren
2023-11-26  7:51 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Sparse checkout completion fixes Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-11-26  7:51   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] completion: squelch stray errors in sparse-checkout completion Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-11-26  7:51   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] completion: fix logic for determining whether cone mode is active Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-11-26  7:51   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] completion: avoid misleading completions in cone mode Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-11-26  7:51   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] completion: avoid user confusion in non-cone mode Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-12-03  5:57   ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Sparse checkout completion fixes Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-12-03  5:57     ` [PATCH v3 1/4] completion: squelch stray errors in sparse-checkout completion Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-12-03  5:57     ` [PATCH v3 2/4] completion: fix logic for determining whether cone mode is active Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-12-03  5:57     ` [PATCH v3 3/4] completion: avoid misleading completions in cone mode Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-12-03  5:57     ` [PATCH v3 4/4] completion: avoid user confusion in non-cone mode Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2023-12-03 13:15       ` Junio C Hamano

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