Subject: Re: Bash tab completion for _git_fetch alias is broken on Git 1.7.7.1

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:09:59 +0100

Am 11/10/2011 4:21, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Nathan Broadbent <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Dear git mailing list,
>>
>> I'm assigning the `_git_fetch` bash tab completion to the alias `gf`,
>> with the following command:
>>
>>     complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_fetch gf
>>
>> The tab completion then works fine in git 1.7.0.4, but breaks on git
>> 1.7.7.1, with the following error:
> 
> We have been cooking for 1.7.8 and have the first release candidate
> 1.7.8-rc1; could you try it and report what you find out?

It looks like _git_fetch is not meant to be called directly. All git
completions must go through _git.

See also this post:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/13310/focus=13335

-- Hannes