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[PATCH] completion: zsh: improve bash script loading

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
May 29, 2013, 03:24 UTC
Message-ID
<1369797840-3103-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
It's better to check in multiple locations, so the user doesn't have to.
And update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
---
 contrib/completion/git-completion.zsh | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.zsh b/contrib/completion/git-completion.zsh
index 2565d2e..9555cf8 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.zsh
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.zsh
@@ -4,18 +4,17 @@
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
 #
-# You need git's bash completion script installed somewhere, by default on the
-# same directory as this script.
+# You need git's bash completion script installed somewhere, by default it
+# would be the location bash-completion uses.
 #
-# If your script is on ~/.git-completion.sh instead, you can configure it on
-# your ~/.zshrc:
+# If your script is somewhere else, you can configure it on your ~/.zshrc:
 #
 #  zstyle ':completion:*:*:git:*' script ~/.git-completion.sh
 #
-# The recommended way to install this script is to copy to
-# '~/.zsh/completion/_git', and then add the following to your ~/.zshrc file:
+# The recommended way to install this script is to copy to '~/.zsh/_git', and
+# then add the following to your ~/.zshrc file:
 #
-#  fpath=(~/.zsh/completion $fpath)
+#  fpath=(~/.zsh $fpath)
 
 complete ()
 {
@@ -27,7 +26,18 @@ zstyle -T ':completion:*:*:git:*' tag-order && \
 	zstyle ':completion:*:*:git:*' tag-order 'common-commands'
 
 zstyle -s ":completion:*:*:git:*" script script
-test -z "$script" && script="$(dirname ${funcsourcetrace[1]%:*})"/git-completion.bash
+if [ -z "$script" ]; then
+	local -a locations
+	locations=(
+		'/etc/bash_completion.d/git' # fedora, old debian
+		'/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git' # arch, ubuntu, new debian
+		'/usr/share/bash-completion/git' # gentoo
+		$(dirname ${funcsourcetrace[1]%:*})/git-completion.bash
+		)
+	for e in $locations; do
+		test -f $e && script="$e" && break
+	done
+fi
 ZSH_VERSION='' . "$script"
 
 __gitcomp ()
-- 
1.8.3.rc3.312.g47657de
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