#
# To use this completion script:
#
+# 0) You need tcsh 6.16.00 or newer.
# 1) Copy both this file and the bash completion script to ${HOME}.
# You _must_ use the name ${HOME}/.git-completion.bash for the
# bash script.
# (e.g. ~/.git-completion.tcsh and ~/.git-completion.bash).
# 2) Add the following line to your .tcshrc/.cshrc:
# source ~/.git-completion.tcsh
+# 3) For completion similar to bash, it is recommended to also
+# add the following line to your .tcshrc/.cshrc:
+# set autolist=ambiguous
+# It will tell tcsh to list the possible completion choices.
+
+set __git_tcsh_completion_version = `\echo ${tcsh} | \sed 's/\./ /g'`
+if ( ${__git_tcsh_completion_version[1]} < 6 || \
+ ( ${__git_tcsh_completion_version[1]} == 6 && \
+ ${__git_tcsh_completion_version[2]} < 16 ) ) then
+ echo "git-completion.tcsh: Your version of tcsh is too old, you need version 6.16.00 or newer. Git completion will not work."
+ exit
+endif
+unset __git_tcsh_completion_version
set __git_tcsh_completion_original_script = ${HOME}/.git-completion.bash
set __git_tcsh_completion_script = ${HOME}/.git-completion.tcsh.bash
+# Check that the user put the script in the right place
+if ( ! -e ${__git_tcsh_completion_original_script} ) then
+ echo "git-completion.tcsh: Cannot find: ${__git_tcsh_completion_original_script}. Git completion will not work."
+ exit
+endif
+
cat << EOF > ${__git_tcsh_completion_script}
#!bash
#
# This script is GENERATED and will be overwritten automatically.
-# Do not modify it directly. Instead, modify the git-completion.tcsh
-# script provided by Git core.
-#
+# Do not modify it directly. Instead, modify git-completion.tcsh
+# and source it again.
source ${__git_tcsh_completion_original_script}
# Set COMP_WORDS in a way that can be handled by the bash script.
-COMP_WORDS=(\$1)
+COMP_WORDS=(\$2)
# The cursor is at the end of parameter #1.
# We must check for a space as the last character which will
# tell us that the previous word is complete and the cursor
# is on the next word.
-if [ "\${1: -1}" == " " ]; then
- # The last character is a space, so our location is at the end
- # of the command-line array
- COMP_CWORD=\${#COMP_WORDS[@]}
+if [ "\${2: -1}" == " " ]; then
+ # The last character is a space, so our location is at the end
+ # of the command-line array
+ COMP_CWORD=\${#COMP_WORDS[@]}
else
- # The last character is not a space, so our location is on the
- # last word of the command-line array, so we must decrement the
- # count by 1
- COMP_CWORD=\$((\${#COMP_WORDS[@]}-1))
+ # The last character is not a space, so our location is on the
+ # last word of the command-line array, so we must decrement the
+ # count by 1
+ COMP_CWORD=\$((\${#COMP_WORDS[@]}-1))
fi
-# Call _git() or _gitk() of the bash script, based on the first
-# element of the command-line
-_\${COMP_WORDS[0]}
+# Call _git() or _gitk() of the bash script, based on the first argument
+_\${1}
IFS=\$'\n'
+if [ \${#COMPREPLY[*]} -eq 0 ]; then
+ # No completions suggested. In this case, we want tcsh to perform
+ # standard file completion. However, there does not seem to be way
+ # to tell tcsh to do that. To help the user, we try to simulate
+ # file completion directly in this script.
+ #
+ # Known issues:
+ # - Possible completions are shown with their directory prefix.
+ # - Completions containing shell variables are not handled.
+ # - Completions with ~ as the first character are not handled.
+
+ # No file completion should be done unless we are completing beyond
+ # the git sub-command. An improvement on the bash completion :)
+ if [ \${COMP_CWORD} -gt 1 ]; then
+ TO_COMPLETE="\${COMP_WORDS[\${COMP_CWORD}]}"
+
+ # We don't support ~ expansion: too tricky.
+ if [ "\${TO_COMPLETE:0:1}" != "~" ]; then
+ # Use ls so as to add the '/' at the end of directories.
+ COMPREPLY=(\`ls -dp \${TO_COMPLETE}* 2> /dev/null\`)
+ fi
+ fi
+fi
+
+# tcsh does not automatically remove duplicates, so we do it ourselves
echo "\${COMPREPLY[*]}" | sort | uniq
+
+# If there is a single completion and it is a directory, we output it
+# a second time to trick tcsh into not adding a space after it.
+if [ \${#COMPREPLY[*]} -eq 1 ] && [ "\${COMPREPLY[0]: -1}" == "/" ]; then
+ echo "\${COMPREPLY[*]}"
+fi
+
EOF
-complete git 'p/*/`bash ${__git_tcsh_completion_script} "${COMMAND_LINE}"`/'
-complete gitk 'p/*/`bash ${__git_tcsh_completion_script} "${COMMAND_LINE}"`/'
+# Don't need this variable anymore, so don't pollute the users environment
+unset __git_tcsh_completion_original_script
+
+complete git 'p,*,`bash ${__git_tcsh_completion_script} git "${COMMAND_LINE}"`,'
+complete gitk 'p,*,`bash ${__git_tcsh_completion_script} gitk "${COMMAND_LINE}"`,'