Re: Custom git completion

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 29, 2010, 15:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20100129151127.GA21821@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <9b69cfcf1001290457s6b7fad6cs5a915f16a11f5782@mail.gmail.com>

David Rhodes Clymer <david@zettazebra.com> wrote:

> Unless I read it incorrectly, the completion script included with
> git-core does not make it easy for users to write completion scripts
> for custom git commands. I can extend git itself by creating a command
> "git-foo", and placing it in my path.

git config --global alias.foo /home/me/bin/my-git-foo

git foo will now complete correctly. No need to modify the completion code.

-- 
Shawn.

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