[PATCH v3 0/3] completion of 'git [-C <dir>] diff'
Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 12:42:47 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.git |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Here is another reroll.
The primary motivation for this topic is that the command-line
completion of 'git diff' does not handle paths (unlike 'git status'
and 'git add') and instead relies on the default behavior of Bash
command-line completion, which completes files in $PWD; this does
not work at all with the '-C <directory>' option.
Previous iterations of the patch taught the completion script to
offer tracked paths that match the prefix before <TAB> to improve
the situation.
This time, we also complete untracked paths ourselves, so that even
the following commands, which compare files like 'file[12]' that are
not under the control of Git in a different directory, are
completed:
$ git -C not-a-git-dir diff fil<TAB>
$ git -C not-a-git-dir diff --no-index fil<TAB>
1/3: completion: no-op refactoring of diff completion
2/3: completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff'
3/3: completion: 'git diff' completes untracked paths as a last resort
contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 69 +++++++++++++++-----------
t/t9902-completion.sh | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)