Hi all,
I just asked for help on the #git irc channel in order to install
the .git-completion.sh script (thanks nessundorma) and after using it 
for a while I started wondering why I cannot find any reference to it the 
official documentation.
The only important think that git grep found is:
	paolo@paolo-desktop:~/git$ git grep completion *
	Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt: - Bash completion scripts have been updated heavily.
Shouldn't it be mentioned somewhere? 

I know that newbies are somehow scared by the following:
	paolo@paolo-desktop:~/git$ git-
	Display all 151 possibilities? (y or n)
What? Do I have to learn 151 commands?
No way!

Using the git-completation script it all boils down to 48 commands.

paolo@paolo-desktop:~/git$ git 
add                   fetch                 rebase 
am                    filter-branch         rebase--interactive 
annotate              format-patch          relink 
apply                 fsck                  remote 
archive               gc                    repack 
bisect                get-tar-commit-id     request-pull 
blame                 grep                  reset 
branch                gui                   resolve 
bundle                imap-send             revert 
checkout              init                  rm 
checkout-index        instaweb              send-email 
cherry                log                   shortlog 
cherry-pick           lost-found            show 
citool                ls-files              show-branch 
clean                 ls-remote             show-ref 
clone                 ls-tree               stash 
commit                merge                 status 
config                mergetool             submodule 
convert-objects       mv                    tag 
count-objects         name-rev              var 
describe              pickaxe               verify-pack 
diff                  pull                  whatchanged 
diff-stages           push

And I think I can remove some commands from the ...
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Also might be worth mentioning the zsh completion support. (I know it's 
there, but haven't used it -- maybe its author would care to describe it 
a bit?)

-Steve
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>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

Steven> Also might be worth mentioning the zsh completion support. (I know it's there,
Steven> but haven't used it -- maybe its author would care to describe it a bit?)

Where is it?  I'm a zsh user, and would love to have git support.

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In zsh itself.

Completion/Unix/Command/_git

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>>>>> "Matthieu" == Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

Matthieu> In zsh itself.

Matthieu> Completion/Unix/Command/_git

Not in my version of zsh.  Any chance I can add that to my 4.2.3 installation?

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http://zsh.cvs.sourceforge.net/zsh/zsh/Completion/Unix/Command/_git

Try adding it to your $fpath, hopefully, the new _git doesn't use the
other new zsh features, and it will work (I have a CVS _git with a
4.3.4 zsh, and it works like a charm).

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>>>>> "Matthieu" == Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

Matthieu> http://zsh.cvs.sourceforge.net/zsh/zsh/Completion/Unix/Command/_git

Matthieu> Try adding it to your $fpath, hopefully, the new _git doesn't use the
Matthieu> other new zsh features, and it will work (I have a CVS _git with a
Matthieu> 4.3.4 zsh, and it works like a charm).

Do I add it as _git below my $fpath?  Or do I need to put it into a subdir?
How will it know it is there?

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Another way to get git-completion support with zsh (works with 4.3.2) is to use 
the existing bash-completion and enable bash-completion for zsh via:
autoload bashcompinit
bashcompinit
in your .zshrc or similar. Btw, if you use gentoo you can install git with bash-completion, 
although i suppose that most people here are not using emerge to get their git ;).

Greetings,
Johannes

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Hi,


diff-stages just struck my eye.  It is no longer in git...  But AFAICS it 
is no longer in git-completion.bash either.

Besides, I think that the number of commands could be reduced further.  
For example, I think that a regular user does not want to see

checkout-index, citool, convert-objects, filter-branch, get-tar-commit-id, 
imap-send, instaweb, lost-found, ls-tree, name-rev, rebase--interactive, 
relink, repack, request-pull, show-ref, var, verify-pack and whatchanged.

This list was not vs the quoted list, but my current list (pretty much tip 
of Shawn's "next".

Note: I would like to complete the _options_ when one of these subcommands 
was specified, but I just do not want to see them when entering 
"git<SPACE><TAB>".

BTW Pierre's idea of generating many (if not all) of these completions on 
the fly (maybe with "--help-completion"?) is intriguing.

Ciao,
Dscho

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To be fair, it's not my idea, I'm just bought to it.

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