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Re: Bash completion Issue?

From
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Date
Nov 5, 2006, 11:22 UTC
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<200611051122.46971.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
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<200611050930.23455.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
On Sunday 05 November 2006 09:30, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> On Sunday 05 November 2006 04:28, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> > Maybe you can nicely ask the Debian maintainer to switch to using
> > use the completion script that is actually shipped with git 1.4.3.3?
>
> It seems to be a little bit more subtle than I first thought.
>
> There is a separate 'git-completion' package which is not maintained by the
> git maintainer (Gerrit Pape) and which has not been updated since August.
> Its this package that contains the scripts.
>
> I'll file a bug report against it.
 removing the git-completion package and copying the bash completion script 
from /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/completion to /etc/bash_completion.d 
solves the problem.  I am getting completion working fine now.
-- 
Alan Chandler
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