zsh completion broken for svn 1.5

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Binary package hint: zsh

Fully up-to-date Hardy Heron as of 1008-10-07 with zsh-4.3.4-24ubuntu1 and subversion-1.5.1dfsg1-1ubuntu2~hardy2 from hardy-backports.

Subversion command completion fails:

% svn add<TAB>
_arguments:comparguments:303: invalid argument: ARG

This goes for any subversion command, not just svn add.

The reason is the following line that appears in 'svn help $command' for any $command:

  --config-dir ARG : read user configuration files from directory ARG

In 1.4 and earlier, it looked like this:

  --config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG

The completion spec barfs on s/arg/ARG/.

The minimal fix is to replace every occurrence of "/ arg/:arg:" with "/ (arg|ARG)/:arg:" in /usr/share/zsh/4.3.4/functions/Completion/Unix/_subversion; see attached patch.

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav (dag-erling)]

"as of 1008-10-07" should of course be "as of 2008-10-07"

[Gaz (errant7015)]

I see the same problem and confirm that the patch works.

[Francisco Borges (francisco-borges)]

FYI: same problem here, and the patch works.

[Kohsuke Kawaguchi (kk-kohsuke)]

Ditto. The patch worked for me.

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

This issue is fixed a long time ago already. zsh 5.0.0-1 supports Subversion syntax up to version 1.7.