As reported by Jeroen Meijer[1]; the current code doesn't deal properly with items (tags, branches, etc.) that have ${} in them because they get expaned by bash while using compgen. A simple solution is to quote the items so they get expanded properly (\$\{\}). In order to achieve that I took bash-completion's quote() function, which is rather simple, and renamed it to __git_quote() as per Jeff King's suggestion. Solves the original problem for me. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201596 Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> --- contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index d743e56..5a5b5a0 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -225,6 +225,13 @@ _get_comp_words_by_ref () fi fi +# Quotes the argument for shell reuse +__git_quote() +{ + local quoted=${1//\'/\'\\\'\'} + printf "'%s'" "$quoted" +} + # Generates completion reply with compgen, appending a space to possible # completion words, if necessary. # It accepts 1 to 4 arguments: @@ -261,7 +268,7 @@ __gitcomp () __gitcomp_nl () { local IFS=$'\n' - COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$1" -- "${3-$cur}")) + COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$(__git_quote "$1")" -- "${3-$cur}")) } __git_heads () -- 1.7.10.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html