Hi, In olden days the admin would copy contrib/completion/git-completion.sh to
/etc/bash_completion.d/git and mortals could source /etc/bash_completion or /etc/bash_completion.d/git in their ~/.bashrc (possibly shared among multiple machines) so that the bash completion and __git_ps1 helpers could work. With Git 1.7.12 __git_ps1 has been split into a separate file, to help users who only want __git_ps1 to avoid the overhead of loading the entire completion script (and allow the completion script to be loaded by bash-completion magic on the fly!). Now the sysadmin should copy contrib/completion/git-completion.sh to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git and contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh to /usr/share/git-core/contrib/?? (somewhere?) Mortals source /etc/bash_completion in their ~/.bashrc (possibly shared among multiple machines) and expect bash completion to work. For __git_ps1, users should source that ?? path. Questions: 1) what path is appropriate for ?? above? 2) is this documented anywhere? Possible answers: 1) Fedora uses /etc/profile.d/git-prompt.sh. Gentoo uses /usr/share/bash-completion/git-prompt. Maybe others use some other path. 2) The scripts themselves suggest copying to ~/.git-completion.sh and ~/.git-prompt.sh. Proposal: 1) /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-prompt 2) git-sh-prompt(1) Sensible? Thanks, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html