Bug 863780 - Bash completion fails when egrep is aliased to 'egrep --color=always'
Summary: Bash completion fails when egrep is aliased to 'egrep --color=always'
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: git
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ondrej Oprala
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-07 11:30 UTC by Holger Arnold
Modified: 2013-08-01 17:54 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 17:54:43 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Patch fixing the problem in /etc/bash_completion.d/git (384 bytes, patch)
2012-10-07 11:30 UTC, Holger Arnold
no flags Details | Diff

Description Holger Arnold 2012-10-07 11:30:10 UTC
Created attachment 622964 [details]
Patch fixing the problem in /etc/bash_completion.d/git

Git's Bash completion script uses egrep to generate possible completions.  This fails if the user has aliased egrep to 'egrep --color=always' due to the generated color escape codes.

The attached patch fixes this by calling egrep in the completion script with '--color=never'.

Comment 1 Adam Tkac 2012-12-11 12:14:11 UTC
Just FYI, this is being discussed in upstream but there is still no consensus if this is a bug or isn't.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/210837

Comment 2 Holger Arnold 2012-12-11 13:07:37 UTC
> Just FYI, this is being discussed in upstream but there is still no
> consensus if this is a bug or isn't.

Thanks, Adam.  Although I understand Junio's concerns of the patch being rather specific, I think there is a difference between (i) protecting against arbitrary aliases and (ii) protecting against aliases that set some default options.

Protecting against someone aliasing 'grep' to 'shutdown' might be overkill, but using an alias to set, e.g., the preferred output format for a program should have no effect on other--in particular non-interactive--users of this program.

An alias should be considered a definition for interactive shell uses only, and if the shell cannot protect non-interactive scripts from aliases, such scripts should protect themselves.  Ideally, the shell would have an "undefine all aliases for this process and all subprocesses" command.

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