From 5620d3b00c7defcbcbcfcb2a42401a0f567ad30a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hisham Muhammad <hisham@gobolinux.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:41:57 -0300
Subject: show: accept a substring when unambiguous and matches a single entry

---
 src/luarocks/cmd/show.lua |  2 +-
 src/luarocks/search.lua   | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/luarocks/cmd/show.lua b/src/luarocks/cmd/show.lua
index 8bb61b94..6d8047d5 100644
--- a/src/luarocks/cmd/show.lua
+++ b/src/luarocks/cmd/show.lua
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ end
 --- Driver function for "show" command.
 -- @return boolean: True if succeeded, nil on errors.
 function show.command(args)
-   local query = queries.new(args.rock, args.namespace, args.version)
+   local query = queries.new(args.rock, args.namespace, args.version, true)
    
    local name, version, repo, repo_url = search.pick_installed_rock(query, args.tree)
    if not name then
diff --git a/src/luarocks/search.lua b/src/luarocks/search.lua
index 80e4caaa..99a969c1 100644
--- a/src/luarocks/search.lua
+++ b/src/luarocks/search.lua
@@ -361,9 +361,25 @@ function search.pick_installed_rock(query, given_tree)
       return nil, "cannot find package "..tostring(query).."\nUse 'list' to find installed rocks."
    end
 
+   if not result_tree[query.name] and next(result_tree, next(result_tree)) then
+      local out = { "multiple installed packages match the name '"..tostring(query).."':\n\n" }
+      for name, _ in util.sortedpairs(result_tree) do
+         table.insert(out, "   " .. name .. "\n")
+      end
+      table.insert(out, "\nPlease specify a single rock.\n")
+      return nil, table.concat(out)
+   end
+
    local version = nil
    local repo_url
-   local _, versions = util.sortedpairs(result_tree)()
+
+   local name, versions
+   if result_tree[query.name] then
+      name, versions = query.name, result_tree[query.name]
+   else
+      name, versions = util.sortedpairs(result_tree)()
+   end
+
    --question: what do we do about multiple versions? This should
    --give us the latest version on the last repo (which is usually the global one)
    for vs, repositories in util.sortedpairs(versions, vers.compare_versions) do
@@ -372,7 +388,7 @@ function search.pick_installed_rock(query, given_tree)
    end
 
    local repo = tree_map[repo_url]
-   return query.name, version, repo, repo_url
+   return name, version, repo, repo_url
 end
 
 return search
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