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NAME
git-lfs-completion - Shell tab-completion script generation for Git LFS
SYNOPSIS
git lfs completion bash
git lfs completion fish
git lfs completion zsh
DESCRIPTION
Outputs a script which, when executed in a session of the given shell, will implement
command-line tab-completion of Git LFS commands.
Each shell requires a different set of commands to load the completion script, either for
an individual session or automatically whenever a new session is started. See the EXAMPLES
section for details.
The script for each shell provides tab-completion of Git LFS command names and flags, but
does not offer completion of Git terms such as the names of Git remotes, branches, or
tags. (This may change in a future release of Git LFS.)
By default, each shell’s script supports Git LFS command completion when prompted with a
tab character entered following the program name git-lfs. For instance, git-lfs [Tab] will
list the available Git LFS commands such as fetch, migrate, and pull, and git-lfs pull
--[Tab] will list the possible flags for the git-lfs-pull(1) command.
However, most users will be accustomed to using Git LFS as a program invoked by Git, e.g.,
git lfs checkout or git lfs pull. To enable tab-completion of Git LFS commands in this
case, tab-completion for regular Git commands must be active as well. Assuming this is
true, the scripts generated by the git lfs completion command should support completion of
Git LFS commands when a tab character is entered following git lfs, such as git lfs [Tab]
to list all available Git LFS commands or git lfs pull --[Tab] to list that command’s
possible flags. See the SHELLS section for details regarding Git tab-completion in the
supported shells.
As is common for shell tab-completion, a space must be entered after the git-lfs or git
lfs command names before the tab character will cause the Git LFS completion script to be
executed. Without the space character, any active shell tab-completion will instead search
for programs whose names have a matching prefix.
The completion scripts make use of "hidden" Git LFS commands to request completion
results from the Git LFS client, specifically the git lfs __complete and git lfs
__completeNoDesc commands. These commands may be removed in the future, or their action
may be altered without notice, and so users should not call them directly or consider them
to be part of the officially documented Git LFS command-line interface.
SHELLS
The git lfs completion command supports three Unix shells, GNU Bash (Bourne Again SHell),
fish, and Zsh (Z shell). Tab-completion is configured differently in each, both in general
and specifically for Git and therefore also for Git LFS.
On Windows, users who have Git LFS installed as part of the Git for Windows project have
access to an emulation of the Bash shell which is packaged with Git for Windows.
• Bash:
While Bash does not offer tab-completion for Git by default, a completion script is
available from the Git project, as described in the documentation:
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Appendix-A%3A-Git-in-Other-Environments-Git-in-Bash
The script returned by the git lfs completion bash command should be compatible with
this Git completion script and allow for tab-completion of Git LFS commands entered
using either the git lfs or git-lfs command formats.
After retrieving a copy of the Git completion script appropriate to your version of
Git, run the following command to load the script in your current session:
$ source git-completion.bash
To load the script in all future sessions, add this command to your Bash startup
files, or place the file in one of the locations searched by the utilities from the
bash-completion package.
The bash-completion project, which is separate from the GNU Bash shell itself,
includes a large number of command completion scripts and utilities to load them
automatically when starting a new session:
https://github.com/scop/bash-completion
The Git LFS completion script for Bash depends on several functions provided by the
bash-completion package, and so that package must be installed in order to use
tab-completion with Git LFS commands. (It is not required by the Git completion script
for Bash, however.)
Assuming the bash-completion package is installed, to load the Git completion script
in all future sessions started by the current user (but not all users), place the
git-completion.bash script in the bash-completion/completions directory within the
location defined by the XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable, or, if that variable is
not defined, the ~/.local/share directory. For example:
$ cp git-completion.bash ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/git
For the bash-completion utilities to load the Git completion script for all users,
place the Git completion script in the appropriate system directory. On Linux this may
be /usr/share/bash-completion/completions, and on macOS, when bash-completion is
installed using Homebrew, it may be the share/bash-completion/completions directory
within the location returned by the brew --prefix command. However, these locations
will vary depending on how the bash-completion package was installed.
• fish:
The fish shell provides its own implementation of Git command tab-completion, defined
in a git.fish file which is likely present by default in the list of locations the
shell searches for completion scripts.
The script returned by the git lfs completion fish command should be compatible with
this implementation and allow for tab-completion of Git LFS commands entered using
either the git lfs or git-lfs command formats.
• Zsh:
To enable tab-completion in Zsh for any commands, the compinit function must be loaded
first with a command similar to the following:
% autoload -Uz compinit && compinit
This may be done individually for each session, or added to a startup file such as
~/.zshrc or /etc/zshrc so it will apply to all future sessions, either for the current
user or for all users.
Zsh reads completion functions from the locations specified in the FPATH environment
variable, with the paths listed first taking precedence. This list is also available
as an array in the fpath variable; the shell automatically synchronizes FPATH and
fpath.
The Z shell provides its own implementation of Git command tab-completion, defined in
a _git file which is likely present in one of the locations specified in fpath.
The script returned by the git lfs completion zsh command should be compatible with
this implementation and allow for tab-completion of Git LFS commands entered using
either the git lfs or git-lfs command formats.
The Git project also offers completion scripts for Zsh, in the form of the same
git-completion.bash script used for the Bash shell, plus a git-completion.zsh script
which is intended to be renamed to _git and placed in a location listed in fpath.
These scripts are not compatible with the one returned by the git lfs completion zsh
command, and if they used in conjunction with that script, tab-completion of Git LFS
commands will not function properly when initiated using the git lfs command format.
On macOS, if Git is installed using Homebrew, the Git project’s Zsh completion scripts
may be installed in a location where they take precedence over the implementation
provided by Zsh. In this case, to make full use of the script returned by git lfs
completion zsh, the _git completion script file installed by Homebrew for Git must be
moved or removed so it does not precede the Z shell’s own Git completion script in the
path order specified by fpath.
EXAMPLES
Loading completions for the current shell session
To load Git LFS command completions for the current shell session only, execute the script
generated by git lfs completion directly.
• Bash:
$ source <(git lfs completion bash)
Note that with Bash 3.2, the source builtin command will not properly execute the
output of a process substitution, and so it will be necessary to use a temporary file
instead:
$ git lfs completion bash >git-lfs-completion.bash
$ source git-lfs-completion.bash
• fish:
> git lfs completion fish | source
• zsh:
Note that the compinit function must also be executed to enable tab-completion, as
described in the SHELLS section.
% source <(git lfs completion zsh)
Automatically loading completions for future shell sessions
To load Git LFS command completions in all future shell sessions, store the script
generated by git lfs completion in a location where it will be read by your shell during
session startup.
• Bash:
As mentioned in the SHELLS section, the bash-completion package is required by the Git
LFS completion scripts for Bash, and it also provides convenient utilities which
search for completion scripts in a set of defined locations and execute them during
session startup.
To load the Git LFS completion script in all future sessions started by the current
user (but not other users), store the script in the bash-completion/completions
directory within the location defined by the XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable, or,
if that variable is not defined, the ~/.local/share directory. For example:
$ mkdir -p ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions
$ git lfs completion bash >~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/git-lfs
To load the completion script in all users' future sessions, store the script instead
in an appropriate system directory, which on Linux may be
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions, or on macOS, if bash-completion was installed
using Homebrew, may be the share/bash-completion/completions directory within the
location returned by the brew --prefix command. These locations will vary depending on
how the bash-completion package was installed and configured, however. For details,
check the documentation relevant to your system’s bash-completion package.
• fish:
The fish shell searches for completion scripts in a number of locations, as described
in the documentation:
https://fishshell.com/docs/current/completions.html#where-to-put-completions
To load the Git LFS completion script in all sessions started by the current user (but
not other users), store the script in the fish/completions directory within the
location defined by the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable, or, if that variable is
not defined, the ~/.config directory. For example:
> mkdir -p ~/.config/fish/completions
> git lfs completion fish >~/.config/fish/completions/git-lfs.fish
To load the completion script in all users' future sessions, store the script in one
of the other locations searched by the shell, such under fish/completions within the
shell’s system configuration directory. On Linux this is typically
/etc/fish/completions. On macOS, when the fish shell is installed using Homebrew, this
would normally be the etc/fish/completions directory within the location returned by
the brew --prefix command.
• zsh:
Note that the compinit function must also be executed to enable tab-completion, as
described in the SHELLS section.
To load the Git LFS completion script in all sessions, store the script as a file
named _git-lfs in one of the locations listed in the fpath variable. The specific
location selected may affect whether the completion script is loaded only for sessions
started by the current user or for all users' sessions, depending on how the set of
paths in the fpath array is constructed.
The following command will store the script in the first location defined in fpath:
% git lfs completion zsh >"${fpath[1]}/_git-lfs"
You may also prefer to store the file in another location defined in fpath, for
instance, the last location, in which case ${fpath[-1]} should be used instead.
It is also possible to add a custom location to the list in fpath and store the Git
LFS completion script there. To do this, add the commands that update the fpath
variable to a startup file such as ~/.zshrc or /etc/zshrc so they will apply to all
future sessions, either for the current user or for all users.
SEE ALSO
Part of the git-lfs(1) suite.
2024-03-07 GIT-LFS-COMPLETION(1)