Re: How to setup bash completion for alias of git command

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2013, 03:55 UTC
Message-ID: <CACSwcnQu0qgKPhDXeDTFTZgh7FBVmaTCTkoJmEsCTUtaM9HU6g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130120111424.GG16339@elie.Belkin>

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Ping,
>
> Ping Yin wrote:
>>
>> However, in debian (testing, wheezy), it doesn't work
>>
>> $ gtlg or<TAB>
>> gtlg or-bash: [: 1: unary operator expected
>> -bash: [: 1: unary operator expected
>
> Yes, I can reproduce this.  "git bisect" tells me it was introduced
> by v1.7.6-rc0~65^2~4 (completion: remove unnecessary
> _get_comp_words_by_ref() invocations, 2011-04-28).  Since then, Felipe
> has done work to make reusing subcommand completion easy again, so you
> can do
>
>         __git_complete gtlg _git_log
>

Thanks very much. by following your advice, it works now.

Ping Yin