On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now the sysadmin should copy > contrib/completion/git-completion.sh to > > /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git > > and contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh to > > /usr/share/git-core/contrib/?? (somewhere?) > > Mortals source /etc/bash_completion in their ~/.bashrc (possibly > shared among multiple machines) and expect bash completion to work. > For __git_ps1, users should source that ?? path. > > Questions: > > 1) what path is appropriate for ?? above? > 2) is this documented anywhere? > > Possible answers: > > 1) Fedora uses /etc/profile.d/git-prompt.sh. Gentoo uses > /usr/share/bash-completion/git-prompt. Maybe others use > some other path. > > 2) The scripts themselves suggest copying to ~/.git-completion.sh > and ~/.git-prompt.sh. > > Proposal: > > 1) /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-prompt > 2) git-sh-prompt(1) > > Sensible? Does the LSB provide any guidance? If not, or if such guidance isn't helpful, I say that looks reasonable. What I'd like to know is why we are saying "copy" when symlinking is likely to be more easily maintainable? (Less chance to screw up.) -- -Drew Northup -------------------------------------------------------------- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- 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