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git autocompletion in OS X Terminal
- Jan 26, 2017
- #git
After procrastinating for too long, I finally spent a minute of my life to setup git autocomplete in the macOS terminal. The original discussion on this topic is found here.
First, run the following command in Terminal to download the autocomplete script:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash
This will download the autocomplete script and place it as a hidden file in your
home folder. After this, open (or create if you have none) ~/.bash_profile
and
add the following to it:
test -f ~/.git-completion.bash && . $_
This will make the Terminal run the .git-completion.bash
script if it exists.
After this, restart Terminal or open a new tab to apply this change. You should now be able to autocomplete branch names, git commands etc.