Less annoying directory completion (see http://bugs.debian.org/343458) The current bash completion script is quite painful in conjuntion with deep directory trees because it adds a space after each successful directory completion. Eg. "hg clone /ho<tab>" is completed to "hg clone /home " when what you really want is "hg clone /home/" (assuming the complete path to the repository looks like /home/foo/hg...). That's because the 'complete' command does not know about the type of completion it receives from the _hg shell function. When only a single completion is returned, it assumes completion is complete and tells readline to add a trailing space. This behaviour is usually wanted, but not in the case of directory completion. I've attached a patch that circumvents this problem by only returning successful completions for directories that contain a .hg subdirectory. If no repositories are found, no completions are returned either, and bash falls back to ordinary (filename) completion. I find this behaviour a lot less annoying than the current one. Alternative: Use option nospace for the 'complete' command and let _hg itself take care of adding a trailing space where appropriate. That's a far more intrusive change, though.

--- a/contrib/bash_completion	Thu Dec 15 15:39:20 2005 +0100
+++ b/contrib/bash_completion	Thu Dec 15 15:40:14 2005 +0100
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@
     COMPREPLY=(${COMPREPLY[@]:-} $( compgen -W "$paths" -- "$cur" ))
 }
 
+_hg_repos()
+{
+    local i
+    for i in $( compgen -d -- "$cur" ); do
+        test ! -d "$i"/.hg || COMPREPLY=(${COMPREPLY[@]:-} "$i")
+    done
+}
+
 _hg_status()
 {
     local files="$( hg status -$1 | cut -b 3- )"
@@ -92,11 +100,11 @@
     # global options
     case "$prev" in
 	-R|--repository)
-	    COMPREPLY=(${COMPREPLY[@]:-} $( compgen -d -- "$cur" ))
+	    _hg_repos
 	    return
 	;;
 	--cwd)
-	    COMPREPLY=(${COMPREPLY[@]:-} $( compgen -d -- "$cur" ))
+	    # Stick with default bash completion
 	    return
 	;;
     esac
@@ -123,7 +131,7 @@
 	;;
 	pull|push|outgoing|incoming)
 	    _hg_paths
-	    COMPREPLY=(${COMPREPLY[@]:-} $( compgen -d -- "$cur" ))
+	    _hg_repos
 	;;
 	paths)
 	    _hg_paths
@@ -151,7 +159,7 @@
 	    if [ $count = 1 ]; then
 		_hg_paths
 	    fi
-	    COMPREPLY=(${COMPREPLY[@]:-} $( compgen -d -- "$cur" ))
+            _hg_repos
 	;;
 	debugindex|debugindexdot)
 	    COMPREPLY=(${COMPREPLY[@]:-} $( compgen -f -X "!*.i" -- "$cur" ))