Re: Thoughts on git-completion

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 1, 2010, 19:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20100301195751.GG24776@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <c115fd3c1003011151n398780fev24d0bd44bb634d83@mail.gmail.com>

Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I `alias g=git` and `alias gk=gitk` on every machine that I use git on
> and I have to edit the git-completion.bash script in order to get the
> marvelous completion provided by that script with my aliases.  Is this
> something that could be rolled in to the official release or does this
> rest firmly in the personal customization realm?  I'm prepared to
> submit a patch if you'd like.

Does adding to your local script

  complete -o bashdefault -o default -o nospace -F _git g 2>/dev/null \
  || complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g

work for you? It seems to me you just need to tell bash to run _git or _gitk when doing completion for your alias.

-- 
Shawn.