Quoting Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@xxxxxxxxx> > I do the following: > > $ git push origin :topic > > If I stop halfway through typing 'topic' and hit TAB, auto-completion > does not work if I do not have a local branch by that name (sometimes > I delete my local branch first, then I push to delete it remotely). I > thought that git completion code was supposed to use ls-remote to auto > complete refs used in push operations. Is this supposed to work? It's intentional. Running 'git ls-remote' with a far away remote can take ages, so instead we grab the refs on the remote from the locally stored refs under 'refs/remotes/<remote>/'. See e832f5c096 (completion: avoid ls-remote in certain scenarios, 2013-05-28). The commit message mentions that you can "force" completion of remote refs via 'git ls-remote' by starting with the full refname, i.e. 'refs/<TAB>', however, that seems to work only on the left hand side of the colon in the push refspec. Gábor -- 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