Installing Git Autocomplete
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I am a mac user so this tutorial will be for mac:
I am going to assume you have Homebrew installed, if not I recommend you do. Otherwise as at the time of writing this post this is the source file from the official git repo
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
….and github, since you have read this far.
now to install bash-completion run
brew install bash-completion
this should take a couple of seconds, then you need to add bash-completion to your ~/.bash_profile file
if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then . $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion fi
For the sake of everyone out there we can take a look at how to edit your .bash_profile
On your terminal run ‘nano .bash_profile’ This should open up the .bash_profile document on your with the Nano text editor. A new one will be created if one doesnt already exist
Now copy the code above and post if into the editor
Use [Ctrl + o] to save your changes and press return.
Now you can exit with [Ctrl + x]
run source .bash_profile to save your changes.
Now you can cd into a folder with git and see how your life just got way easier. You are absolutely welcome
Kofi
Ghanaian born global citizen