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.

#!/bin/sh

mkdir test
cd test
hg init
echo foo>foo
hg addremove
hg commit -m 1
echo bar>bar
hg addremove
hg commit -m 2
mkdir baz
echo bletch>baz/bletch
hg addremove
hg commit -m 3
echo "[web]" >> .hg/hgrc
echo "name = test-archive" >> .hg/hgrc
echo "allowzip = true" >> .hg/hgrc
echo "allowgz = true" >> .hg/hgrc
echo "allowbz2 = true" >> .hg/hgrc
hg serve -p 20059 > /dev/null &
sleep 1 # wait for server to be started

TIP=`hg id -v | cut -f1 -d' '`
QTIP=`hg id -q`
cat > getarchive.py <<EOF
import sys, urllib2
node, archive = sys.argv[1:]
f = urllib2.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:20059/?cmd=archive;node=%s;type=%s'
                    % (node, archive))
sys.stdout.write(f.read())
EOF
http_proxy= python getarchive.py "$TIP" gz | tar tzf - | sed "s/$QTIP/TIP/"
http_proxy= python getarchive.py "$TIP" bz2 | tar tjf - | sed "s/$QTIP/TIP/"
http_proxy= python getarchive.py "$TIP" zip > archive.zip
unzip -t archive.zip | sed "s/$QTIP/TIP/"

kill $!