Re: git-completion.bash: Show list of local branches instead of refs for git checkout

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2017, 09:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20171204092946.6763-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEZzL1CfXn-XXMG-CFNpZL0B-Rq2r1JoD9gWxHOUR25z_zt+VA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

>     I am using git-completion.bash and when I try to checkout a branch
> by typing git checkout on the prompt, I get the following:
> 
> FETCH_HEAD FETCH ORIG_FETCH

What is "ORIG_FETCH"? This string was never present in Git's source code.

> Will it not be more useful if the list of local branches is populated?

'git checkout <TAB>' should already list branches, and it seems to work just fine.

Gábor