completion: bash: support recursive aliases

It is possible to have recursive aliases like:

  l = log --oneline
  lg = l --graph

So the completion should detect such aliases as well.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 7c81e4ba49..97eccffa4a 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1120,26 +1120,38 @@ __git_pretty_aliases ()
 # __git_aliased_command requires 1 argument
 __git_aliased_command ()
 {
-	local word cmdline=$(__git config --get "alias.$1")
-	for word in $cmdline; do
-		case "$word" in
-		\!gitk|gitk)
-			echo "gitk"
-			return
-			;;
-		\!*)	: shell command alias ;;
-		-*)	: option ;;
-		*=*)	: setting env ;;
-		git)	: git itself ;;
-		\(\))   : skip parens of shell function definition ;;
-		{)	: skip start of shell helper function ;;
-		:)	: skip null command ;;
-		\'*)	: skip opening quote after sh -c ;;
-		*)
-			echo "$word"
-			return
-		esac
+	local cur=$1 last word cmdline
+
+	while [[ -n "$cur" ]]; do
+		cmdline=$(__git config --get "alias.$cur")
+		last=$cur
+		cur=
+
+		for word in $cmdline; do
+			case "$word" in
+			\!gitk|gitk)
+				cur="gitk"
+				break
+				;;
+			\!*)	: shell command alias ;;
+			-*)	: option ;;
+			*=*)	: setting env ;;
+			git)	: git itself ;;
+			\(\))   : skip parens of shell function definition ;;
+			{)	: skip start of shell helper function ;;
+			:)	: skip null command ;;
+			\'*)	: skip opening quote after sh -c ;;
+			*)
+				cur="$word"
+				break
+			esac
+		done
 	done
+
+	cur=$last
+	if [[ "$cur" != "$1" ]]; then
+		echo "$cur"
+	fi
 }
 
 # Check whether one of the given words is present on the command line,