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Commit 1e0ee4087e (completion: add and use
__git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section, 2024-02-10) uses an
indirect variable syntax that is only valid for Bash, but the Zsh
completion code relies on the Bash completion code to function. Zsh
supports a different indirect variable expansion using ${(P)var}, but in
`emulate ksh` mode does not support Bash's ${!var}.
This manifests as completing strange config options like
"__git_first_level_config_vars_for_section_remote" as a choice for the
command line
git config set remote.
Using Zsh's C-x ? _complete_debug widget with the cursor at the end of
that command line captures a trace, in which we see (some details
elided):
+__git_complete_config_variable_name:7> __git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section remote
+__git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section:7> local section=remote
+__git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section:7> __git_compute_config_vars
+__git_compute_config_vars:7> test -n $'add.ignoreErrors\nadvice.addEmbeddedRepo\nadvice.addEmptyPathspec\nadvice.addIgnoredFile[…]'
+__git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section:7> local this_section=__git_first_level_config_vars_for_section_remote
+__git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section:7> test -n __git_first_level_config_vars_for_section_remote
+__git_complete_config_variable_name:7> local this_section=__git_first_level_config_vars_for_section_remote
+__git_complete_config_variable_name:7> __gitcomp_nl_append __git_first_level_config_vars_for_section_remote remote. '' ' '
+__gitcomp_nl_append:7> __gitcomp_nl __git_first_level_config_vars_for_section_remote remote. '' ' '
+__gitcomp_nl:7> emulate -L zsh
+__gitcomp_nl:7> compset -P '*[=:]'
+__gitcomp_nl:7> compadd -Q -S ' ' -p remote. -- __git_first_level_config_vars_for_section_remote
We perform the test for __git_compute_config_vars correctly, but the
${!this_section} references are not expanded as expected.
Instead, portably expand indirect references through the new
__git_indirect. Contrary to some versions you might find online [1],
this version avoids echo non-portabilities [2] [3] and correctly quotes
the indirect expansion after eval (so that the result is not split or
globbed before being handed to printf).
[1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/41409/301073
[2]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/715765/mysterious-behavior-of-echo-command#comment1056038_715769
[3]: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/CatEchoLs
The following demo program demonstrates how this works:
b=1
indirect() {
eval printf '%s' "\"\$$1\""
}
f() {
# Comment this out to see that it works for globals, too. Or, use
# a value with spaces like '2 3 4' to see how it handles those.
local b=2
local a=b
test -n "$(indirect $a)" && echo nice
}
f
When placed in a file "demo", then both
bash -x demo
and
zsh -xc 'emulate ksh -c ". ./demo"' |& tail
provide traces showing that "$(indirect $a)" produces 2 (or 1, with the
global, or "2 3 4" as a single string, etc.).
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Contributed Software Although these pieces are available as part of the official git source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them, and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved faster. I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners" have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer). This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the drill. I expect things that start their life in the contrib/ area to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused and inactive ones from time to time. If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves there is general interest (it does not have to be a list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport), submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your stuff there. -jc