More Productive Git

Re:More Productive Git by no_gravity on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:19PM (#20004917)

Put this in your bashrc:

    source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git

And you can type "git br<tab>" to write "git branch", "git checkout fun<tab>" to write "git checkout funky-feature", "git log --na<tab>" to write "git log --name-only" etc.

Pretty much every time you press <tab> somewhere while writing a git command, it does the right type of completion. And hitting <tab> multiple times lets you toggle through the options. So you learn git along the way.

This was one of my most enjoyable productivity jumps when it comes to using git.

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Re:More Productive Git by dearrifling on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:43PM (#20005116)

On debian this is the default behavior.

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Re:More Productive Git by panpanna on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:56PM (#20005223)

Same in Ubuntu.

Bash completion on Ubuntu/debian is out of this world. I can do things like

lxc exec <TAB>

and get a list of currently running containers.

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Re:More Productive Git by johnhenry on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:58PM (#20005649)

Fun fact: Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian!

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Re:More Productive Git by panpanna on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:02PM (#20005679)

Yeah, but they also have added some stuff that is not part of standard Debian.

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Re:More Productive Git by paulddraper on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:13PM (#20005328)

git has a whole bash library for autocompletion stuff (like complete ref, complete tree). You can even use it when writing your own commands.

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Re:More Productive Git by saagarjha on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:26PM (#20005422)

If you're on macOS, update your bash and install bash-completions and git. The path above is likely wrong if you're using a package manager: for MacPorts you want to source /opt/local/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh, and for Homebrew it's $(brew --prefix)/share/bash-completion/bash_completion (the install process will tell you what to use).

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Re:More Productive Git by emmelaich on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:36PM (#20006413)

My brew has it in /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/

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Re:More Productive Git by saagarjha on Saturday May 25, 2019 @12:38AM (#20007113)

That seems to be a legacy thing: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...

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Re:More Productive Git by GauntletWizard on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:47PM (#20005142)

Here's mine:

    [alias]
      git = !cd -- ${GIT_PREFIX:-.} && git

This turns my most common typo (starting to type a git command, thinking about it, typing 'git' again) into what I wanted it to be.

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Re:More Productive Git by Seb-C on Sunday May 26, 2019 @10:31PM (#20019001)

  [help]
      autocorrect = 1

This one is very useful too.

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Re:More Productive Git by BinaryIdiot on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:45PM (#20005130)

I don't know why I never thought to look for more completions for git. This is a great tip!

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