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[PATCH] Allow pcomplete of git add to include untracked files.

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Message #17 received at 75336 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Peter Seibel <peter <at> gigamonkeys.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>,
 75336 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75336: [PATCH] Allow pcomplete of git add to include
 untracked files.
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 10:04:31 -0500

>> > I was going a bit crazy trying to figure out why tab completion in
>> > *shell* wasn't working for git add when I was trying to add a new
>> > file to my repo.  Turns out pcomplete was only completing modified
>> > tracked files.  This patch changes it so after git add it also
>> > completes untracked non-ignored files.
>> Augusto and Stefan, any comments?

The (new) patch looks good to me.

FWIW, it also makes sense occasionally to `git add` ignored files
(e.g. we could want to track a `.elc` file in the test suite inside the
Emacs repository to check how we handle specific old-format `.elc`
files).


        Stefan

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