completion: drop the hard coded list of config vars

The new help option --config-for-completion is a machine friendlier
version of --config where all the placeholders and wildcards are
dropped, leaving only the good, completable prefixes for
git-completion.bash to consume.

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

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index f078dfebad..3ebf0568db 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ struct slot_expansion {
 	int found;
 };
 
-void list_config_help(void)
+void list_config_help(int for_human)
 {
 	struct slot_expansion slot_expansions[] = {
 		{ "advice", "*", list_config_advices },
@@ -460,8 +460,36 @@ void list_config_help(void)
 			    e->prefix, e->placeholder);
 
 	string_list_sort(&keys);
-	for (i = 0; i < keys.nr; i++)
-		puts(keys.items[i].string);
+	for (i = 0; i < keys.nr; i++) {
+		const char *var = keys.items[i].string;
+		const char *wildcard, *tag, *cut;
+
+		if (for_human) {
+			puts(var);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		wildcard = strchr(var, '*');
+		tag = strchr(var, '<');
+
+		if (!wildcard && !tag) {
+			puts(var);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (wildcard && !tag)
+			cut = wildcard;
+		else if (!wildcard && tag)
+			cut = tag;
+		else
+			cut = wildcard < tag ? wildcard : tag;
+
+		/*
+		 * We may produce duplicates, but that's up to
+		 * git-completion.bash to handle
+		 */
+		printf("%.*s\n", (int)(cut - var), var);
+	}
 	string_list_clear(&keys, 0);
 }