Tab completion when checking out remote branches

[sirxyzzy]

I do a fetch with a (Stash based) remote, and see a new remote branch, "origin/bugfix/XXX-999-pdf-to-tiff-quality"

I try "git checkout bugfix/XXX" then tab, nothing completes. I can see why, the branch is not local yet, but git itself would accept "git checkout bugfix/XXX-999-pdf-to-tiff-quality" , I get no completion because git treats branch names in special ways in some cases.

I hope I am just missing something, if not, I'll fork and fix if I can!

[dahlbyk]

You're not missing anything - the gitBranches function to look up branch names is not aware that Git will let you checkout remote branches without the remote prefix.

[sirxyzzy]

Well, I guess I better fix that, unless it is in progress with someone
else, I may be a bit slow, but... yo-ho, yo-ho, it's off to clone I go!

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Keith Dahlby notifications@github.com
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You're not missing anything - the gitBranches function to look up branch
names is not aware that Git will let you checkout remote branches without
the remote prefix.

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#177 (comment).

[sirxyzzy]

I think I can see how to fix this, the code is pretty easy to understand,
simpler than I expected, thanks.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andy Philpotts andy@failfree.net wrote:

Well, I guess I better fix that, unless it is in progress with someone
else, I may be a bit slow, but... yo-ho, yo-ho, it's off to clone I go!

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Keith Dahlby notifications@github.com
wrote:

You're not missing anything - the gitBranches function to look up branch
names is not aware that Git will let you checkout remote branches without
the remote prefix.

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#177 (comment).

[dahlbyk]

Glad to hear it. You've probably noticed, but we currently handle checkout along with a larger list of commands that use refs - probably need to separate checkout out from the others.

[sirxyzzy]

yup, i was adding a specific match as you say, the slightly trickier bit was to figure out unique branch names, as if two remotes use the same name, that must be excluded from the match, i plan to wrap this up tonight, if i can, and am happy to do so, i use posh-git and want to pay back by contributing

Andy

On Feb 26, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Keith Dahlby notifications@github.com wrote:

Glad to hear it. You've probably noticed, but we currently handle checkout along with a larger list of commands that use refs - probably need to separate checkout out from the others.

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[dbarrett84]

Was there a fix made for this???

[petterek]

Any progress?

[dahlbyk]

This was fixed by #352