On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 05:51:06PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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.
Ah, the good old days! I even modified 'make install' to copy the completion script to /etc/bash_completion.d/. And I was happy. > 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? Don't know what is appropriate, and it's not documented. I for one copy it manually to ~/.git-prompt.sh every once in a while. And I'm not all that happy with that. > 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) Not sure about the "sh" part. The prompt function is very Bash-specific, it won't work under a plain POSIX shell. Do other VCSes have similar prompt scripts? Where do they install theirs? Gábor -- 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
