Git branch completion doesn't work

[jytug]

Hey, I have browsed a number of threads regarding this beyond counting.

I want to be able to hit <TAB> after git checkout and see a list of the local
branches that exist in my repository. I was told this would work as-is when I installed
zsh and oh-my-zsh from brew. It didn't, so I tried to debug it in the following ways:

1. Added git to my plugins. Then I investigated and it only defines a list of aliases
2. Added gitfast to my plugins. It ships with a git-completion.bash script, but it never sources it anywhere
3. Tried downloading those scripts: git-completion.bash and git-completion.zsh and sourcing the latter.
   I also tried each of those steps after removing ~/.zcompdump*.

Perhaps someone with a deeper insight could help. Attachments:

my .zshrc

The tab completion suggests file names for checkout:

[scottalan]

I'm having the same issue. I had this working on another machine. I'll check the setup when I can and post back if there isn't a reply that answers this issue.

[mcornella]

Disable the gitfast plugin and make sure you didn't install Homebrew's git completion. It shouldn't matter but try that anyway. You can find git completion files by running:

for d ($fpath); do [[ -e $d/_git ]] && echo $d/_git; done

Homebrew's provided completion should be in /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions. Try disabling read permissions to that file, delete zcompdump cache files (rm ~/.zcompdump*), then exec zsh. If that was the issue, git checkout completion should work.

Related: #7062

[respencer]

@jytug can you please close this issue or provide further information if you still consider this an issue with oh-my-zsh?

[jytug]

@mcornella thank you for your input. However, it doesn't seem to have helped. I have removed the read permissions:

filip:elo/ (master) $ for d ($fpath); do [[ -e $d/_git ]] && echo $d/_git; done                                                                                                                  [16:56:27]
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_git
/usr/share/zsh/5.3/functions/_git
filip:elo/ (master) $ cat /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_git                                                                                                                               [16:56:57]
cat: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_git: Permission denied
filip:elo/ (master) $ exec zsh
<same problem as before>

[mcornella]

Have you tried rm ~/.zcompdump*, then restarting the shell? What does which $_comps[git] show?

[felipec]

Tried downloading those scripts: git-completion.bash and git-completion.zsh and sourcing the latter.

I'm the maintainer of Git's zsh completion.

The gitfast plugin is simply packaging the completion from Git.

If you read the instructions of the git-completion.zsh script it says to install it on your fpath, so you put it in ~/.zsh/_git; you don't source it. That alone should do it; you don't need oh-my-sh or anything else.

If you want to use a bash completion script other than what your system provides, you download git-completion.bash, put it in somewhere (I use ~/.git-completion.bash), and then you have to tell the zsh script how to use it:

zstyle ':completion:*:*:git:*' script ~/.git-completion.bash

You don't source anything, that will probably cause more problems. In fact you should see errors if you try to do that.

The gitfast plugin is supposed to make it so you don't have to do all those steps.

[JiElPe-Fr38]

Dear all,

I have the same problem, though I know it worked on another environment. But I don't remember the details unless it was probably a zsh on Ubuntu.

Here is the current details :

• Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
• zsh 5.4.2
• git version 2.17.1
• Updated version of Oh-my-zsh

> which $_comps[git]
_git () {
        local _ret=1 
	local cur cword prev
	cur=${words[CURRENT]} 
	prev=${words[CURRENT-1]} 
	let cword=CURRENT-1
	if (( $+functions[__${service}_zsh_main] ))
	then
		__${service}_zsh_main
	elif (( $+functions[__${service}_main] ))
	then
		emulate ksh -c __${service}_main
	elif (( $+functions[_${service}] ))
	then
		emulate ksh -c _${service}
	fi
	let _ret && _default && _ret=0 
	return _ret
}

I tried to remove ~/.zcompdump* and run zstyle..., but the problem still persists.
And I see no error on command line.

Hope these information can help.

J-L

[felipec]

@JiElPe-Fr38 You do "git checkout " and nothing completes?

You are using the gitfast plugin?

What do you get when you run:

type -f _git_checkout

[JiElPe-Fr38]

Hi, Thanks for helping ! Here is the output of the command : ``` _git_checkout () { __git_has_doubledash && return case "$cur" in (--conflict=*) __gitcomp "diff3 merge" "" "${cur##--conflict=}" ;; (--*) __gitcomp " --quiet --ours --theirs --track --no-track --merge --conflict= --orphan --patch --detach --ignore-skip-worktree-bits --recurse-submodules --no-recurse-submodules " ;; (*) local flags="--track --no-track --no-guess" track_opt="--track" if [ "$GIT_COMPLETION_CHECKOUT_NO_GUESS" = "1" ] || [ -n "$(__git_find_on_cmdline "$flags")" ] then track_opt='' fi __git_complete_refs $track_opt ;; esac } ``` I have cheked GIT_COMPLETION_CHECKOUT_NO_GUESS . It is not defined. Best Regards J-L