[Bash-completion-devel] Question on subversion completion

[Guillaume Rousse]

David Paleino a écrit :
> On Mon, 11 May 2009 15:44:49 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bash-completion team + subversion maintainer
> 
> Hello,
> 
>> [..]
>> Namely why is debian shipping with two different bash_completions for
>> subversion? I have one from bash_completion v1:1.0-2 and one from
>> subversion v1.5.6dfsg-1(determined via apt-file):
> 
> Because we had a subversion completion, but didn't check whether it was
> complete or not. Thus we renamed it as _subversion.
The upstream completion from subversion has different behaviour than 
other completions from bash-completion project. For instance, it filters 
completion on short version of options when the long one has already 
been given (-v --v<TAB> won't complete on verbose, for instance), and on 
mutually exclusive options too (--recursive vs --non-recursive).

I forked it in bash-completion project many times ago to have a more 
standard behaviour and implementation. Indeed, it may lacks recently 
added options.

As we'll run into this problem for other packages too (gvfs, openoffice 
for instance also provide their own completions functions), I guess we 
may consider the practice of shipping our own versions in _package files 
a consistent answer.
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