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annotate doc/hgmerge.1.txt @ 1587:851bc33ff545
Less annoying directory completion (see http://bugs.debian.org/343458)
The current bash completion script is quite painful in conjuntion with
deep directory trees because it adds a space after each successful
directory completion. Eg. "hg clone /ho<tab>" is completed to "hg clone
/home " when what you really want is "hg clone /home/" (assuming the
complete path to the repository looks like /home/foo/hg...).
That's because the 'complete' command does not know about the type of
completion it receives from the _hg shell function. When only a single
completion is returned, it assumes completion is complete and tells
readline to add a trailing space. This behaviour is usually wanted, but
not in the case of directory completion.
I've attached a patch that circumvents this problem by only returning
successful completions for directories that contain a .hg subdirectory.
If no repositories are found, no completions are returned either, and
bash falls back to ordinary (filename) completion. I find this behaviour
a lot less annoying than the current one.
Alternative: Use option nospace for the 'complete' command and let _hg
itself take care of adding a trailing space where appropriate. That's a
far more intrusive change, though.
author | Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org> |
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date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:40:14 +0100 |
parents | 3ab6e55ee361 |
children | 345bac2bc4ec |
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466 | 1 HGMERGE(1) |
2 ========== | |
3 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> | |
4 v0.1, 27 May 2005 | |
5 | |
6 NAME | |
7 ---- | |
8 hgmerge - default wrapper to merge files in Mercurial SCM system | |
9 | |
10 SYNOPSIS | |
11 -------- | |
12 'hgmerge' local ancestor remote | |
13 | |
14 DESCRIPTION | |
15 ----------- | |
16 The hgmerge(1) command provides a graphical interface to merge files in the | |
17 Mercurial system. It is a simple wrapper around kdiff3, merge(1) and tkdiff(1), | |
18 or simply diff(1) and patch(1) depending on what is present on the system. | |
19 | |
20 hgmerge(1) is used by the Mercurial SCM if the environment variable HGMERGE is | |
21 not set. | |
22 | |
23 AUTHOR | |
24 ------ | |
25 Written by Vincent Danjean <Vincent.Danjean@free.fr> | |
26 | |
27 SEE ALSO | |
28 -------- | |
29 hg(1) - the command line interface to Mercurial SCM | |
30 | |
31 COPYING | |
32 ------- | |
1341 | 33 Copyright \(C) 2005 Matt Mackall. |
466 | 34 Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General |
35 Public License (GPL). |