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davidrea edited this page Sep 21, 2011 · 17 revisions

git-flow completion requires git-completion to work. How exactly you go about installing git-completion varies wildly from system to system, so it's hard to give exact installation instructions.

OS X

By far the easiest way to install both Git and git-completion is via Homebrew, so you should pick that one.

Homebrew

  1. Install homebrew

  2. Install Git and bash-completion: brew install git bash-completion

  3. Add bash-completion to your .bash_profile:

     if [ -f `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion ]; then
   . `brew --prefix`/etc/bash_completion
 fi

MacPorts

If you're using MacPorts, then you will need to install git-core with the +bash_completion option

sudo port install git-core +bash_completion

And add the following to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile

if [ -f /opt/local/etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . /opt/local/etc/bash_completion
fi

Ubuntu

  1. Install Git and bash-completion: sudo apt-get install git bash-completion
  2. I don't think you need to do anything else.

Windows with msysgit

  1. Download and place git-flow-completion.bash in home directory (~/ in msysgit shell)

  2. Add a .bashrc file to your home directory with the following line (or add this line to existing .bashrc file):

    source ~/git-flow-completion.bash

Note: The steps above have been tested to work with msysgit version 1.7.3.1 and newer, while completion does not function when tested with msysgit version 1.7.0.2. For best results, install the latest version of msysgit.

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