completion: allow to customize the completable command list

By default we show porcelain, external commands and a couple others
that are also popular. If you are not happy with this list, you can
now customize it a new config variable.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 23924dd..abf8720 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -366,6 +366,39 @@ void list_cmds_by_category(struct string_list *list,
 	}
 }
 
+void list_cmds_by_config(struct string_list *list)
+{
+	const char *cmd_list;
+
+	/*
+	 * There's no actual repository setup at this point (and even
+	 * if there is, we don't really care; only global config
+	 * matters). If we accidentally set up a repository, it's ok
+	 * too since the caller (git --list-cmds=) should exit shortly
+	 * anyway.
+	 */
+	if (git_config_get_string_const("completion.commands", &cmd_list))
+		return;
+
+	string_list_sort(list);
+	string_list_remove_duplicates(list, 0);
+
+	while (*cmd_list) {
+		struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+		const char *p = strchrnul(cmd_list, ' ');
+
+		strbuf_add(&sb, cmd_list, p - cmd_list);
+		if (*cmd_list == '-')
+			string_list_remove(list, cmd_list + 1, 0);
+		else
+			string_list_insert(list, sb.buf);
+		strbuf_release(&sb);
+		while (*p == ' ')
+			p++;
+		cmd_list = p;
+	}
+}
+
 void list_common_guides_help(void)
 {
 	struct category_description catdesc[] = {