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.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, os
from mercurial import hg
f = sys.argv[1]
r1 = hg.revlog(open, f + ".i", f + ".d")
r2 = hg.revlog(open, f + ".i2", f + ".d2")
tr = hg.transaction(open, "journal")
for i in xrange(r1.count()):
n = r1.node(i)
p1, p2 = r1.parents(n)
l = r1.linkrev(n)
t = r1.revision(n)
n2 = r2.addrevision(t, tr, l, p1, p2)
tr.close()
os.rename(f + ".i", f + ".i.old")
os.rename(f + ".d", f + ".d.old")
os.rename(f + ".i2", f + ".i")
os.rename(f + ".d2", f + ".d")