file completion not working with git log -L

[bruce-ricard]

Hi,

apologies if this is not the right place to ask. Posting in the git repo felt like I wouldn't hit the right audience.

I am having issues with my shell not autocompleting files after typing git log -L 42,42:<tab> nothing shows up. Everything else works: autocompleting of files on other commands, e.g. git log <tab> shows the files; git l<tab> gets "git log". But I cannot get it to work with the -L option.

As another example, if I type git log -L 42,42 <tab> (notice the space instead of the colon), then it does autocomplete, but for some reason the syntax of this flag is line,line:file.

Does this work for other people? If yes, would you have any pointer to help me debug why it isn't working for me? I found the testing & debugging of zsh completions. I tried hitting the debugger as I had typed git log -L 42,42:r<tab> and I get this

tags in context :completion::approximate-1:git::
argument-rest (_arguments __git_zsh_main _git)
globbed-files (_files _default _git)
tags in context :completion::approximate:::
corrections original (_approximate)
tags in context :completion::complete:git::
argument-rest (_arguments __git_zsh_main _git)
globbed-files (_files _default _git)
tags in context :completion::correct-1:git::
argument-rest (_arguments __git_zsh_main _git)
globbed-files (_files _default _git)
tags in context :completion::correct:::
corrections original (_approximate)

which I really don't understand how to read.

Please advice, thanks.