Less annoying directory completion (see http://bugs.debian.org/343458)
The current bash completion script is quite painful in conjuntion with
deep directory trees because it adds a space after each successful
directory completion. Eg. "hg clone /ho<tab>" is completed to "hg clone
/home " when what you really want is "hg clone /home/" (assuming the
complete path to the repository looks like /home/foo/hg...).
That's because the 'complete' command does not know about the type of
completion it receives from the _hg shell function. When only a single
completion is returned, it assumes completion is complete and tells
readline to add a trailing space. This behaviour is usually wanted, but
not in the case of directory completion.
I've attached a patch that circumvents this problem by only returning
successful completions for directories that contain a .hg subdirectory.
If no repositories are found, no completions are returned either, and
bash falls back to ordinary (filename) completion. I find this behaviour
a lot less annoying than the current one.
Alternative: Use option nospace for the 'complete' command and let _hg
itself take care of adding a trailing space where appropriate. That's a
far more intrusive change, though.
#!/bin/bash
hg init test
cd test
cat >>afile <<EOF
0
EOF
hg add afile
hg commit -m "0.0"
cat >>afile <<EOF
1
EOF
hg commit -m "0.1"
cat >>afile <<EOF
2
EOF
hg commit -m "0.2"
cat >>afile <<EOF
3
EOF
hg commit -m "0.3"
hg update -C 0
cat >>afile <<EOF
1
EOF
hg commit -m "1.1"
cat >>afile <<EOF
2
EOF
hg commit -m "1.2"
cat >fred <<EOF
a line
EOF
cat >>afile <<EOF
3
EOF
hg add fred
hg commit -m "1.3"
hg mv afile adifferentfile
hg commit -m "1.3m"
hg update -C 3
hg mv afile anotherfile
hg commit -m "0.3m"
hg debugindex .hg/data/afile.i
hg debugindex .hg/data/adifferentfile.i
hg debugindex .hg/data/anotherfile.i
hg debugindex .hg/data/fred.i
hg debugindex .hg/00manifest.i
hg verify
cd ..
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
hg clone -r "$i" test test-"$i"
cd test-"$i"
hg verify
cd ..
done
cd test-8
hg pull ../test-7
hg verify