[Bash-completion-devel] GNU tar completion

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Monday 05 of January 2015 14:03:22 Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> On Monday 03 of November 2014 14:23:22 Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > Hello all!
> > 
> > On Thursday 17 of April 2014 15:57:11 Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > +# Everything is parsed from `tar --help` output
> > > 
> > > Have you tested this with tar implementations that don't do --help
> > > and/or output something very different for it than GNU tar, for example
> > > the Solaris and BSD tars? What's the expected outcome with them? Even
> > > though the completion file says "for GNU tar", in practice it is being
> > > used with other tars as well.
> > 
> > I tried to rework the patch to not rush non-GNU tar users, for such tars
> > the _posix_tar completion is used.  It would be so nice if that could
> > become in upcoming bash-completion release :).
> 
> Ping?

Ping?  Had anyone a chance to review a bit (or at least do a bit of
testing)?