[Bash-completion-commits] [SCM] bash-completion branch, master, updated. 098dcd80b6387627fe611e5b8eeafc81d177260c

[Ville Skyttä]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 098dcd80b6387627fe611e5b8eeafc81d177260c
Author: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi>
Date:   Sun Oct 18 20:40:29 2009 +0300

    Add portability note to long option preference.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 5690bc3..5d0bb3e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -473,6 +473,10 @@ guidelines in mind:
   the same thing and require an argument, offer only --something as a
   completion when completing option names starting with a dash, but do
   implement required argument processing for all -s, -S, and --something.
+  Note that GNU versions of various standard commands tend to have long
+  options while other userland implementations of the same commands may
+  not have them, and it would be good to have the completions work for
+  as many userlands as possible so things aren't always that simple.
 
 - Do not write to the file-system under any circumstances. This can
   create race conditions, is inefficient, violates the principle of

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bash-completion