Git Branch Autocomplete

[adamjford]

Before switching to cmder, I was using ComEmu + Git Bash, and it had a feature where if you were typing a git command that expected a branch name, like git checkout <branch>, you could start typing the name of the branch and then hit Tab to autocomplete the name. (Or at least I believe it included that; I might have added that myself a long time ago but I don't recall doing so.)

It doesn't appear that cmder supports that out of the box. Is there a way to enable that or would that have to be a new feature?

Note: I'm using the MSYSGIT version of cmder.

[rmorrin]

I would be interested in this also. Love cmder, but miss this feature from the git bash prompt!

[dufferzafar]

👍

[samvasko]

Oh, I am afraid you are at wrong address. All the git completion is done by clink.
You can see the relevant FAQ

I am sure somebody can figure that out! I would also like to see that.

[adamjford]

Oh, whoops! Good to know.

In the meanwhile, I added Git Bash as a task in cmder's ComEmu like I did with my standalone ConEmu, and that seems to be working.

[samvasko]

Relevant source would like to contribute! 💪

[lehnerpat]

this works for me in current cmder.

I use the Git Bash installed with regular Git for Windows and it worked out of the box.

[sweiss3]

Hey,
I've just created a .lua script for it, which works with regular CMD.

I'm a bit of a github newbie, so if you can tell me how to publish it, I'd appreciate it..

Thanks!

[dufferzafar]

@sweiss3 - The easiest way probably would be to upload the code as a gist.

Go to - https://gist.github.com/ . Paste your code. Save it as a public gist and share the link with us.

Just do it, already. 😄

[sweiss3]

Haha, alright - there it is: https://gist.github.com/sweiss3/9858452

Note that this is my first encounter with Lua so it could probably be re-written to perform better.

Enjoy!

[dufferzafar]

I just did a git checkout and everything works, yay!

Now you just have to fork the project, add your code (the file to the config folder), and generate a Pull request.

This might help: http://guides.github.com/overviews/forking/

Happy Git-Hubbing!

[sweiss3]

@dufferzafar Thanks! I've created a pull request for it: #174

[espiriki]

I'm using the 191012 [64] version and looks like it doesn't work when you use aliases.
If I do "git checkout branch-name" that works for me. But I have an alias "co" for checkout
If I do "git co branch-name" that doesn't work

[bachbach]

@espiriki here you can find a workaround: #1495