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Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] doc: Change zsh git completion file name

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 25, 2020, 03:40 UTC
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 3:22 AM SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Instructing users to copy our completion script to
> '~/.zsh/git-completion.zsh' goes against this convention.
>
> More importantly, it appears that this is more than a mere convention,
> maybe a requirement even; at least renaming our zsh completion script
> to follow the convention (IOW following the current install
> instructions) makes it work all of a sudden:

It is a requirement. If the file is not named '_git' it will never be autoloaded. The whole point of naming it that way is that it's loaded after typing 'git<tab>'.

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Felipe Contreras
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Message 10 of 13 in “doc: Add a note about ~/.zsh/_git file”
  1. 0/1 doc: Add a note about ~/.zsh/_git fileMax Belsky via GitGitGadget, Oct 10, 2019
  2. 1/1 doc: Change zsh git completion file nameMaxim Belsky via GitGitGadget, Oct 10, 2019
  3. Johannes SchindelinOct 10, 2019
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2019
  5. 0/1 doc: Add a note about ~/.zsh/_git fileMax Belsky via GitGitGadget, Oct 11, 2019
  6. 1/1 doc: Change zsh git completion file nameMaxim Belsky via GitGitGadget, Oct 11, 2019
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2019
  8. SZEDER GáborOct 14, 2019
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2019
  10. Felipe ContrerasOct 25, 2020
  11. 0/1 doc: Add a note about ~/.zsh/_git fileMax Belsky via GitGitGadget, Oct 15, 2019
  12. 1/1 doc: Change zsh git completion file nameMaxim Belsky via GitGitGadget, Oct 15, 2019
  13. Junio C HamanoOct 16, 2019

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