Re: [PATCH 00/14] completion: a bunch of updates

> > I didn't say the users didn't get the scripts from the distribution, I
> > said I didn't know of anyone that did. I just checked the installation
> > instructions of Homebrew, and they do seem to install the zsh
> > completion from contrib, whoever, by the time I see the bug reports,
> > those users already downloaded the most recent version from GitHub
> > [1].
>
> I might not be the representative zsh user, but just as one data point:
> I have never downloaded the completion scripts from anywhere. I always
> use the one that comes with my "distro" (which is the Mac git installer,
> most of the time, which puts it in /usr/local/git/contrib/completion/).
> I symlink that to ~/.zfunc/_git.

> > On the other hand my distribution (Arch Linux) does not enable the zsh
> > script by default, it just lies dormant in /usr/share/git/completion,
> > which nobody uses. So users in Arch Linux naturally would download the
> > latest version from GitHub [1] as well.
> >
> > So, which distributions package and enable the zsh script by default? Who knows.
> >
> > I suggested you to graduate those scripts out of contrib so
> > distributions would trust the scripts enough to enable them by
> > default, but you refused.
> >
> > What you do with the scripts is up to you, I only know what would
> > happen depending on what you do. 1) If you leave them as is, some
> > distributions would enable them, others don't, and people will keep
> > downloading the scripts from git's GitHub [1]. 2) If you graduate
> > them, more--if not all--distributions would enable them by default,
> > and less people would download them. 3) If you remove them, people
> > would look for another git repository to download those scripts from.
>
> I don't think it makes a difference whether the scripts live in contrib
> or not. Bash completion is also in contrib, and yet it seems to be
> shipped and enabled by most distros, as far as I can tell.