Git Bash Completion

After CakeFest 2011 I have been well and truly converted to using Git and GitHub for my source code management!

One thing that was frustrating me was the lack of Bash completion (basically hitting tab half way through a command for it to show you the completion or possible completions) I found a great solution thanks to a user on GitHub.

cd /tmp
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
cd git
git checkout v`git --version | awk '{print $3}'`
cp contrib/completion/git-completion.bash ~/.git-completion.bash
cd ~
rm -rf /tmp/git
echo -e "source ~/.git-completion.bash" >> .profile

You can check out the original blog post here.

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