Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 3:09 AM Stefan Haller <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I might not be the representative zsh user, but just as one data point: >> I have never downloaded the completion scripts from anywhere. I always >> use the one that comes with my "distro" (which is the Mac git installer, >> most of the time, which puts it in /usr/local/git/contrib/completion/). >> I symlink that to ~/.zfunc/_git. That's one data point. >> I don't think it makes a difference whether the scripts live in contrib >> or not. Bash completion is also in contrib, and yet it seems to be >> shipped and enabled by most distros, as far as I can tell. > > Apples and oranges. > > There is no default completion for git in bash, neither in bash, nor > in bash-completion, so if the distribution doesn't install the > completion in the right place > (/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git), then the user would have > no git completion. True, as far as I know. https://github.com/scop/bash-completion does not seem to have an entry for "git" (/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git however is locally there on my box---probably the corp IT folks installed it there), so what we ship in contrib/ is the most used (if not the only) implementation of bash completion script. > On zsh the situation is different; zsh by default has a git completion > (/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix/_git), and some might argue > it's more complete than git's zsh completion, How is that completion script developed, maintained and distributed? By "by default" I believe you mean that it gets installed when you install zsh automatically. Is the situation different on macOS land (which I can believe, unfortunately)? Stefan? If at least some people argue what comes with zsh by default is more complete than the one we have in contrib/, what led you choose to "symlink" the less complete one to use it instead? Another question (this is for Felipe). Is https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins/gitfast the one that comes with zsh by default, or is it something else (perhaps it is the go-to version for those who are not satisfied with the version that comes with zsh by default???)? Thanks.
