Cygwin git tab completion

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JAyenGreen picture JAyenGreen · Sep 10, 2013 · Viewed 14.5k times · Source

I installed Cygwin on windows and one of the default packages is git tab completion, but I don't have tab completion.

I did some searching and found a note saying it isn't enabled by default. I copied the skel .bashrc and .bash_profile to ~ and in .bashrc I uncommented the lines for completion and then relaunched the console. Still nothing.

I then noticed that the file .bash_completion was not present in /etc, so I found a copy of that online and put it in place, but I still have no completion in git.

It seems there should also be a /etc/bash_completion.d directory with git/ in it, but I don't have that either.

Answer

sesm picture sesm · Nov 24, 2014

Updated for 2016: Install package bash-completion.

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